LEADER 03633nam 2200589 a 450 001 9910456371703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8078-8887-7 035 $a(CKB)2520000000007769 035 $a(EBL)880170 035 $a(OCoLC)593230906 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC880170 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL880170 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10367491 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL929940 035 $a(EXLCZ)992520000000007769 100 $a20061129d2007 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 200 10$aBattling the plantation mentality$b[electronic resource] $eMemphis and the Black freedom struggle /$fLaurie B. Green 210 $aChapel Hill $cUniversity of North Carolina Press$dc2007 215 $a1 online resource (430 p.) 225 1 $aThe John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8078-5802-1 311 $a0-8078-3106-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 359-379) and index. 327 $aMigration, 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. 330 $aAfrican American freedom is often defined in terms of emancipation and civil rights legislation, but it did not arrive with the stroke of a pen or the rap of a gavel. No single event makes this more plain, Laurie Green argues, than the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers' strike, which culminated in the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Exploring the notion of ""freedom"" in postwar Memphis, Green demonstrates that the civil rights movement was battling an ongoing ""plantation mentality"" based on race, gender, and power that permeated southern culture long before--and even after--the ground 410 0$aJohn Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture. 606 $aAfrican Americans$xCivil rights$zTennessee$zMemphis$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aAfrican Americans$xSegregation$zTennessee$zMemphis$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aCivil rights movements$zTennessee$zMemphis$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aAfrican Americans$zTennessee$zMemphis$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aRacism$zTennessee$zMemphis$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aMemphis (Tenn.)$xRace relations$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aMemphis (Tenn.)$xHistory$y20th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xCivil rights$xHistory 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xSegregation$xHistory 615 0$aCivil rights movements$xHistory 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xHistory 615 0$aRacism$xHistory 676 $a323.1196/0730768190904 700 $aGreen$b Laurie Boush$0932510 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910456371703321 996 $aBattling the plantation mentality$92098432 997 $aUNINA