ISBN:
0807872024
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0807878057
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1469603535
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9780807872024
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9780807878057
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9781469603537
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
DDC:
305.8009762/4709045
Keywords:
Eastland, James O. / (James Oliver) / 1904-1986
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Hamer, Fannie Lou
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Hamer, Fannie Lou
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Eastland, James Oliver / 1904-1986
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Hamer, Fannie Lou
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Eastland, James O.
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United States / Congress / Senate
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United States / Congress / Senate
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United States Biography
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1900 - 1999
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Geschichte 1900-2000
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Social Scientists & Psychologists
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies
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HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
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African American civil rights workers
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African Americans / Civil rights
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Children of sharecroppers
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Civil rights movements
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Legislators
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Race relations
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Racism
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Geschichte
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Schwarze. USA
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Racism History 20th century
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African Americans Civil rights 20th century
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History
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Civil rights movements History 20th century
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African American civil rights workers Biography
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Children of sharecroppers Biography
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Legislators Biography
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USA
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Biografie
Note:
Originally published in 2008 by The New Press
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-353) and index
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Prologue: Sunflower County, 1994 - 1 -- - 1 - Sunflower County, 1904 - 6 -- - 2 - Planter's Son, Sharecroppers' Daughter - 33 -- - 3 - "Cotton Is Dynamite": New Deals in Sunflower County - 65 -- - 4 - "An Enormous Tragedy in the Making": Revolutions in Sunflower County and Abroad - 99 -- - 5 - "From Cotton-to Communism-to Segregation!": The Senator's Rise to Power - 132 -- - 6 - "No One Can Honestly Say Negroes Are Satisfied": The Sharecropper Embraces the Movement - 167 -- - 7 - 1964: Confrontations - 198 -- - 8 - "This Is America's Sickness" - 221 -- - 9 - "The Pendulum Is Swinging Back" - 253 -- - 10 - "Right on Back to the Plantation" - 279
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This is the story of the epic struggle for black equality in the 20th century told through the deeply intertwined life histories of the staunch segregationist and wealthy cotton planter, Senator James O. Eastland, and his sharecropper nemesis, Fannie Lou Hamer, who became the spiritual leader of the civil rights movement
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