Right to revolt : the crusade for racial justice in Mississippi's Central Piney Woods /

Boyett, Patricia Michelle,

Right to revolt : the crusade for racial justice in Mississippi's Central Piney Woods / Patricia Michelle Boyett. - 1 online resource (333 pages)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Prologue: roots of revolt -- Monsters, mockingbirds, and morality plays -- Massive resistance and the making of the movement -- Freedom days and white knights -- Operation freedom summer -- Wars of attrition -- War on the white knights and the white city -- Trials of the Ku Klux Klan -- Stalemate -- Epilogue: road to redemption.

9781496804341


African Americans--Civil rights--History--Mississippi--Piney Woods (Region)--20th century.
Civil rights movements--History--Mississippi--Piney Woods (Region)--20th century.
Race discrimination--History--Mississippi--Piney Woods (Region)--20th century.
African Americans--History--Mississippi--Piney Woods (Region)--20th century.


Piney Woods (Miss. : Region)--Race relations.


Electronic books.

F347.P63 / .B694 2015

323.1196/07307625