Bloody Lowndes
Subtitle: civil rights and Black power in Alabama's Black Belt
By: Hasan Kwame Jeffries.
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780814743058
Subjects: African Americans -- Civil rights -- Alabama -- Lowndes County -- History -- 20th century; Civil rights movements -- Alabama -- Lowndes County -- History -- 20th century; African Americans -- Alabama -- Lowndes County -- Politics and government -- 20th century; Lowndes County (Ala.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century; Black Belt (Ala. and Miss.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century; Lowndes County (Ala.) -- Politics and government -- 20th century; Black Belt (Ala. and Miss.) -- Politics and government -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Map of Alabama's Black Belt counties; title: Map of Lowndes County; title: Conditions unfavorable to the rise of the Negro : the pursuit of freedom rights before the civil rights era; title: I didn't come here to knock : the making of a grassroots social movement; title: We ain't going to shed a tear for Jon : school desegregation, White resistance, and the African American response; title: I'm going to try to take some of the freedom here back home : the federal government and the fight for freedom rights; title: We gonna show Alabama just how bad we are : the birth of the original Black Panther Party and the development of freedom politics; title: Tax the rich to feed the poor : Black power and the election of 1966; title: Now is the time for work to begin : Black politics in the post-civil rights era; title: Epilogue: That black dirt gets in your soul : the fight for freedom rights in the days ahead.