The Senator and the Sharecropper: The Freedom Struggles of James O. Eastland and Fannie Lou Hamer - Tapa blanda

Asch, Chris Myers

 
9780807872024: The Senator and the Sharecropper: The Freedom Struggles of James O. Eastland and Fannie Lou Hamer
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ISBN 10: 0807872024 ISBN 13: 9780807872024
Editorial: The University of North Carolina Press, 2011

Sinopsis

In this fascinating study of race, politics, and economics in Mississippi, Chris Myers Asch tells the story of two extraordinary personalities - Fannie Lou Hamer and James O. Eastland - who represented deeply opposed sides of the civil rights movement. Both were from Sunflower County: Eastland was a wealthy white planter and one of the most powerful segregationists in the U.S. Senate, while Hamer, a sharecropper who grew up desperately poor just a few miles from the Eastland plantation, rose to become the spiritual leader of the Mississippi freedom struggle. Asch uses Hamer’s and Eastland’s entwined histories, set against the backdrop of Sunflower County’s rise and fall as a center of cotton agriculture, to explore the county’s changing social landscape during the mid-twentieth century and its persistence today as a land separate and unequal. Asch, who spent nearly a decade in Mississippi as an educator, offers a fresh look at the South’s troubled ties to the cotton industry, the long struggle for civil rights, and unrelenting social and economic injustice through the eyes of two of the era’s most important and intriguing figures.

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Chris Myers Asch teaches history at the University of the District of Columbia.

De la contraportada

Asch offers a fresh look at the South's troubled ties to the cotton industry, the long struggle for civil rights, and unrelenting social and economic injustice through the eyes of Fannie Lou Hamer and James O. Eastland, two of the era's most important and intriguing figures.

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Asch offers a fresh look at the South's troubled ties to the cotton industry, the long struggle for civil rights, and unrelenting social and economic injustice through the eyes of Fannie Lou Hamer and James O. Eastland, two of the era's most important and intriguing figures.

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Editorial
The University of North Carolina Press
Año de publicación
2011
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0807872024
ISBN 13 
9780807872024
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
392
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