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The civil rights movement in Mississippi

Title
The civil rights movement in Mississippi / edited by Ted Ownby.
Publication
Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2013]

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Additional Authors
Ownby, Ted
Description
xvii, 318 pages; 24 cm.
Summary
"Based on new research and combining multiple scholarly approaches, these twelve essays tell new stories about the civil right movement in the state most resistant to change. Wesley Hogan, Françoise N. Hamlin, and Michael Vinson Williams raise questions about how civil rights organizing took place. Three pairs of essays address African Americans' and whites' stories on education, religion, and the issues of violence. Jelani Favors and Robert Luckett analyze civil rights issues on the campuses of Jackson State University and the University of Mississippi. Carter Dalton Lyon and Joseph T. Reiff study people who confronted the question of how their religion related to their possible involvement in civil rights activism. By studying the Ku Klux Klan and the Deacons for Defense in Mississippi, David Cunningham and Akinyele Umoja ask who chose to use violence or to raise its possibility. The final three chapters describe some of the consequences and continuing questions raised by the civil rights movement. Byron D'Andra Orey analyzes the degree to which voting rights translated into political power for African American legislators. Chris Myers Asch studies a freedom School that started in recent years in the Mississippi Delta. Emilye Crosby details the conflicting memories of Claiborne County residents and the parts of the civil rights movement they recall or ignore. As a group, the essays introduce numerous new characters and conundrums into civil rights scholarship, advance efforts to study African Americans and whites as interactive agents in the complex stories, and encourage historians to pull civil rights scholarship closer toward the present"--
Series Statement
Chancellor Porter L. Fortune symposium in southern history series
Uniform Title
Chancellor Porter L. Fortune Symposium in Southern History series.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Call Number
Sc E 14-329
ISBN
  • 9781617039331 (hardback)
  • 1617039330 (hardback)
  • 9781617039348 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
2013016386
OCLC
843124217
Title
The civil rights movement in Mississippi / edited by Ted Ownby.
Publisher
Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2013]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Chancellor Porter L. Fortune symposium in southern history series
Chancellor Porter L. Fortune Symposium in Southern History series.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Ownby, Ted, editor.
Research Call Number
Sc E 14-329
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