03600nam 2200577 a 450 991078098170332120200520144314.00-8078-8887-7(CKB)2520000000007769(EBL)880170(OCoLC)593230906(Au-PeEL)EBL880170(CaPaEBR)ebr10367491(CaONFJC)MIL929940(MiAaPQ)EBC880170(EXLCZ)99252000000000776920061129d2007 ub 0engur|n|---|||||Battling the plantation mentality[electronic resource] Memphis and the Black freedom struggle /Laurie B. GreenChapel Hill University of North Carolina Pressc20071 online resource (430 p.)The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and cultureDescription based upon print version of record.0-8078-5802-1 0-8078-3106-9 Includes bibliographical references (p. 359-379) and index.Migration, memory, and freedom in the urban heart of the Delta -- Memphis before World War II: migrants, mushroom strikes, and the reign of terror -- Where would the Negro women apply for work?: wartime clashes over labor, gender, and racial justice -- Moral outrage: postwar protest against police violence and sexual assault -- Night train, Freedom Train: black youth and racial politics in the early Cold War -- Our mental liberties: banned movies, black-appeal radio, and the struggle for a new public sphere -- Rejecting mammy: the urban-rural road in the era of Brown v. Board of Education -- We were making history: students, sharecroppers, and sanitation workers in the Memphis freedom movement -- Battling the plantation mentality: from the Civil Rights Act to the sanitation strike.African American freedom is often defined in terms of emancipation and civil rights legislation, but it did not arrive with the stroke of a pen or the rap of a gavel. No single event makes this more plain, Laurie Green argues, than the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers' strike, which culminated in the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Exploring the notion of ""freedom"" in postwar Memphis, Green demonstrates that the civil rights movement was battling an ongoing ""plantation mentality"" based on race, gender, and power that permeated southern culture long before--and even after--the groundJohn Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.African AmericansCivil rightsTennesseeMemphisHistory20th centuryAfrican AmericansSegregationTennesseeMemphisHistory20th centuryCivil rights movementsTennesseeMemphisHistory20th centuryAfrican AmericansTennesseeMemphisHistory20th centuryRacismTennesseeMemphisHistory20th centuryMemphis (Tenn.)Race relationsHistory20th centuryMemphis (Tenn.)History20th centuryAfrican AmericansCivil rightsHistoryAfrican AmericansSegregationHistoryCivil rights movementsHistoryAfrican AmericansHistoryRacismHistory323.1196/0730768190904Green Laurie Boush1473529MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910780981703321Battling the plantation mentality3686729UNINA