Let the People Decide
Subtitle: Black Freedom and White Resistance Movements in Sunflower County, Mississippi, 1945-1986
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: November 1, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780807828953
Subjects: Black studies; Civil rights & citizenship; Segregation; History - U.S.; Civil rights movements; United States - 20th Century; Political Science; Politics/International Relations; Mississippi; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Histor; United States - 20th Century (1945 to 2000); United States - State & Local - South; History / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV); civil rights; race relations; Mississippi Delta; James Eastland; Citizens' Council movement; Fannie Lou Hamer; Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee; SNCC; Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party; Freedom Summer; Civil rights; Sunflower County; Political Freedom & Security - Civil Rights; 20th century; African Americans; History
First sentence: Charles McLaurin moved to Sunflower County in 1962, one of a handful of college-age staff members for the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) who went into the Mississippi Delta to register African American voters.