After Freedom Summer [electronic resource] : How Race Realigned Mississippi Politics, 1965-1986 /
Danielson, Chris.
Gainesville : University Press of Florida,
c2011.
No one disagrees that 1964--Freedom Summer--forever changed the political landscape of Mississippi. How those changes played out is the subject of Chris Danielson's fascinating new book, After Freedom Summer .
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No one disagrees that 1964--Freedom Summer--forever changed the political landscape of Mississippi. How those changes played out is the subject of Chris Danielson's fascinating new book, After Freedom Summer .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-278) and index.
Black Politics in Mississippi to 1965 -- Plates of Silver, Plates of Mud : 1965-1970 -- Gubernatorial Fantasies and Gradual Gains -- Fused But Not Healed -- Reapportionment : Giving Clark Some Company -- The Class of 1979 and the Second Generation of Black Political Power -- Lead into Gold? : The Alchemy of County Redistricting -- City Wards and Jacksonian Democracy -- The Delta District and the Continuing Politics of Race -- Epilogue: Javitses into Eastlands, Eastlands into Barbours.
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Mississippi Freedom Project
Political participation
African American politicians
African Americans