An unseen light
Subtitle: black struggles for freedom in Memphis, Tennessee
By: edited by Aram Goudsouzian and Charles W. McKinney Jr
Series: Civil rights and the struggle for Black equality in the twentieth century; Civil rights and the struggle for Black equality in the twentieth century
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 414
ISBN-13: 9780813175515
Subjects: Politics and government; Race relations; Civil rights; African Americans; Civil rights movements; Political activity; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "In the hands of the Lord": migrants and community politics in the late nineteenth century / Brian D. Page; title: "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; title: Equal power: Bishop Charles H. Mason and the National Tabernacle fire / Elton H. Weaver III; title: "There will be no discrimination": race, power, and the Memphis flood of 1937 / David Welky; title: Taylor-made: envisioning black Memphis at midcentury / Beverly Greene Bond; title: "We'll have no race trouble here": racial politics and Memphis's reign of terror / Jason Jordan; title: Power and protection: gender and black working-class protest narratives, 1940-1948 / Laurie B. Green; title: Black Memphians and new frontiers: the Shelby County Democratic Club, the Kennedy administration, and the quest for black political power, 1959-1964 / Elizabeth Gritter; title: "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; title: "You pay one hell of a price to be black": Rufus Thomas and the racial politics of Memphis music / Charles Hughes; title: "If the march cannot be here, then where?": Memphis and the Meredith March / Aram Goudsouzian; title: Nonviolence, black power, and the surveillance state in Memphis's war on poverty / Anthony C. Siracusa; title: Beyond 1968: the 1969 Black Monday protest in Memphis / James Conway; title: Beauty and the black student revolt: black student activism at Memphis State and the politics of campus "beauty spaces" / Shirletta Kinchen; title: After Stax: race, sound, and neighborhood revitalization / Zandria F. Robinson; title: Black workers matter: the continuing search for racial and economic equality in Memphis / Michael Honey.