Battling the plantation mentality [electronic resource] : Memphis and the Black freedom struggle / Laurie B. Green.

By: Green, Laurie BoushContributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextSeries: John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culturePublication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2007Description: 415 p. : ill., mapsSubject(s): African Americans -- Civil rights -- Tennessee -- Memphis -- History -- 20th century | African Americans -- Segregation -- Tennessee -- Memphis -- History -- 20th century | Civil rights movements -- Tennessee -- Memphis -- History -- 20th century | African Americans -- Tennessee -- Memphis -- History -- 20th century | Racism -- Tennessee -- Memphis -- History -- 20th century | Memphis (Tenn.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century | Memphis (Tenn.) -- History -- 20th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 323.1196/0730768190904 LOC classification: F444.M59 | N485 2007Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Migration, memory, and freedom in the urban heart of the Delta -- Memphis before World War II: migrants, mushroom strikes, and the reign of terror -- Where would the Negro women apply for work?: wartime clashes over labor, gender, and racial justice -- Moral outrage: postwar protest against police violence and sexual assault -- Night train, Freedom Train: black youth and racial politics in the early Cold War -- Our mental liberties: banned movies, black-appeal radio, and the struggle for a new public sphere -- Rejecting mammy: the urban-rural road in the era of Brown v. Board of Education -- We were making history: students, sharecroppers, and sanitation workers in the Memphis freedom movement -- Battling the plantation mentality: from the Civil Rights Act to the sanitation strike.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 359-379) and index.

Migration, memory, and freedom in the urban heart of the Delta -- Memphis before World War II: migrants, mushroom strikes, and the reign of terror -- Where would the Negro women apply for work?: wartime clashes over labor, gender, and racial justice -- Moral outrage: postwar protest against police violence and sexual assault -- Night train, Freedom Train: black youth and racial politics in the early Cold War -- Our mental liberties: banned movies, black-appeal radio, and the struggle for a new public sphere -- Rejecting mammy: the urban-rural road in the era of Brown v. Board of Education -- We were making history: students, sharecroppers, and sanitation workers in the Memphis freedom movement -- Battling the plantation mentality: from the Civil Rights Act to the sanitation strike.

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