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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464310603321

Autore

Katz Joel <1943->

Titolo

And I said no Lord : a twenty-one-year-old in Mississippi in 1964 / / Joel Katz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, Alabama : , : The University of Alabama Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-8173-8764-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (187 p.)

Disciplina

323.092

Soggetti

Civil rights workers - Mississippi

Civil rights movements - Mississippi - History - 20th century

African Americans - Civil rights - Mississippi - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; 1. In the Capital: Urban and Rural; 2. At RC's: Community Institutions: Cafe, Barber Shop, Pool Hall, Church; 3. Interview with the Citizen's Councils of America: Contrast and Conflict; 4. Clarence's Story: At Home: Vicksburg and Ruleville; 5. In the Streamline and Maggie's: The Street and the Field; Notes on the Photographs; Afterword; Acknowledgments; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

In And I Said No Lord, photographer and writer Joel Katz presents a pictorial chronicle of his travels through the shifting islands of fear and loss, freedom and deliverance that was segregated Mississippi during the Freedom Summer of 1964.In June 1964, college student Joel Katz boarded a Greyhound bus in Hartford, Connecticut, for Jackson, Mississippi. He carried few possessions-a small bag of clothes, a written invitation to call on Frank Barber, who was special assistant to Governor Paul Johnson, and a Honeywell Pentax H1-A camera with three lenses.A few days aft