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Hattiesburg : an American city in black and white
- Title
- Hattiesburg : an American city in black and white / William Sturkey.
- Author
- Sturkey, William
- Publication
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2019.
- ©2019
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Details
- Description
- 442 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm
- Summary
- In this rich multigenerational saga of race and family in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, William Sturkey reveals the personal stories behind the men and women who struggled to uphold their southern "way of life" against the threat of desegregation, and those who fought to tear it down in the name of justice and racial equality.--
- Subjects
- Civil rights movements
- African Americans > Segregation
- White people > Mississippi > Hattiesburg > Attitudes
- Whites > Attitudes
- History
- Civil rights movements > Mississippi > Hattiesburg > History > Personal narratives
- Race relations
- African Americans > Mississippi > Hattiesburg > Public opinion
- Hattiesburg (Miss.) > Race relations > History
- African Americans > Public opinion
- Personal narratives
- African Americans > Segregation > Mississippi > Hattiesburg > History
- Mississippi > Hattiesburg
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Personal narratives.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: People of spirit -- Visionaries -- The bottom rail -- The noble spirit -- A little colony of Mississippians -- Broken promises -- Those who stayed -- Reliance -- Community children -- Salvation -- A rising -- Crying in the wilderness -- When the movement came -- Conclusion: Changes.
- Call Number
- Sc E 19-916
- ISBN
- 9780674976351
- 0674976355
- LCCN
- 2018040469
- 40028928712
- OCLC
- 1057241218
- Author
- Sturkey, William, author.
- Title
- Hattiesburg : an American city in black and white / William Sturkey.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2019.
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40028928712
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 19-916