LEADER 04772oam 22006494a 450 001 9910795463803321 005 20180228030005.0 010 $a0-8131-7570-4 010 $a0-8131-7552-6 010 $a0-8131-7553-4 035 $a(CKB)4340000000248251 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5309255 035 $a(OCoLC)1024312333 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse64639 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001919406 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC30361671 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL30361671 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC30769834 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL30769834 035 $a(EXLCZ)994340000000248251 100 $a20171206d2018 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 03$aAn Unseen Light$b[electronic resource] $eBlack Struggles for Freedom in Memphis, Tennessee /$fedited by Aram Goudsouzian and Charles W. McKinney Jr 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aLexington, Kentucky $cThe University Press of Kentucky$d[2018] 215 $a1 online resource (416 pages) 225 1 $aCivil rights and the struggle for Black equality in the twentieth century 300 $aPreviously issued in print: 2018. 311 $a0-8131-7551-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a"In the hands of the Lord": migrants and community politics in the late nineteenth century / Brian D. Page -- "The saving of black America's body and white America's soul": the lynching of Ell Persons and the rise of black activism in Memphis / Darius Young -- Equal power: Bishop Charles H. Mason and the National Tabernacle fire / Elton H. Weaver III -- "There will be no discrimination": race, power, and the Memphis flood of 1937 / David Welky -- Taylor-made: envisioning black Memphis at midcentury / Beverly Greene Bond -- "We'll have no race trouble here": racial politics and Memphis's reign of terror / Jason Jordan -- Power and protection: gender and black working-class protest narratives, 1940-1948 / Laurie B. Green -- Black Memphians and new frontiers: the Shelby County Democratic Club, the Kennedy administration, and the quest for black political power, 1959-1964 / Elizabeth Gritter -- "Since I was a citizen, I had the right to attend the library": the key role of the public library in the civil rights movement in Memphis / Steven A. Knowlton -- "You pay one hell of a price to be black": Rufus Thomas and the racial politics of Memphis music / Charles Hughes -- "If the march cannot be here, then where?": Memphis and the Meredith March / Aram Goudsouzian -- Nonviolence, black power, and the surveillance state in Memphis's war on poverty / Anthony C. Siracusa -- Beyond 1968: the 1969 Black Monday protest in Memphis / James Conway -- Beauty and the black student revolt: black student activism at Memphis State and the politics of campus "beauty spaces" / Shirletta Kinchen -- After Stax: race, sound, and neighborhood revitalization / Zandria F. Robinson -- Black workers matter: the continuing search for racial and economic equality in Memphis / Michael Honey. 330 8 $aIn 'An Unseen Light', eminent and rising scholars offer a multidisciplinary examination of Memphis's role in African American history during the twentieth century. The city was at the epicenter of the civil rights movement on April 4, 1968, when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel. But the essays in this work broaden the scholarly understanding of the black freedom struggle in Memphis. In chronicling the significant events that took place in the city and its citizens' many contributions to the black freedom struggle, they show how Memphis has been largely overlooked by historians of the civil rights movement. 410 0$aCivil rights and the struggle for Black equality in the twentieth century. 606 $aCivil rights movements$zTennessee$zMemphis$xHistory 606 $aAfrican Americans$zTennessee$zMemphis$xHistory 606 $aAfrican Americans$xPolitical activity$zTennessee$zMemphis$xHistory 606 $aAfrican Americans$xCivil rights$zTennessee$zMemphis$xHistory 607 $aMemphis (Tenn.)$xRace relations$xHistory 607 $aMemphis (Tenn.)$xPolitics and government 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aCivil rights movements$xHistory. 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xHistory. 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xPolitical activity$xHistory. 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xCivil rights$xHistory. 676 $a323.1196/073076819 702 $aMcKinney$b Charles Wesley$f1967- 702 $aGoudsouzian$b Aram 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910795463803321 996 $aAn Unseen Light$93769157 997 $aUNINA