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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456860303321

Autore

Jeffries Hasan Kwame <1973->

Titolo

Bloody Lowndes [[electronic resource] ] : civil rights and Black power in Alabama's Black Belt / / Hasan Kwame Jeffries

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : New York University Press, c2009

ISBN

0-8147-4365-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (372 p.)

Disciplina

323.11970761/465

Soggetti

African Americans - Civil rights - Alabama - Lowndes County - History - 20th century

Civil rights movements - Alabama - Lowndes County - History - 20th century

African Americans - Alabama - Lowndes County - Politics and government - 20th century

Electronic books.

Lowndes County (Ala.) Race relations History 20th century

Black Belt (Ala. and Miss.) Race relations History 20th century

Lowndes County (Ala.) Politics and government 20th century

Black Belt (Ala. and Miss.) Politics and government 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: 2009.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-315) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Conditions unfavorable to the rise of the Negro : the pursuit of freedom rights before the civil rights era -- I didn't come here to knock : the making of a grassroots social movement -- We ain't going to shed a tear for Jon : school desegregation, White resistance, and the African American response -- I'm going to try to take some of the freedom here back home : the federal government and the fight for freedom rights -- We gonna show Alabama just how bad we are : the birth of the original Black Panther Party and the development of freedom politics -- Tax the rich to feed the poor : Black power and the election of 1966 -- Now is the time for work to begin : Black politics in the post-civil rights era -- Epilogue: That black dirt gets in your soul : the fight for freedom rights in the days ahead.

Sommario/riassunto

Drawing on sources ranging from government documents to personal



interviews with Lowndes County residents, Hasan Kwame Jeffries tells the remarkable story of the Lowndes County freedom struggle and its contribution to the larger civil rights movement.