The senator and the sharecropper
Subtitle: the freedom struggles of James O. Eastland and Fannie Lou Hamer
By: Chris Myers Asch
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780807878057; 9780807872024
Subjects: Social Scientists & Psychologists; Children of sharecroppers; United States. Congress. Senate; Minority Studies; Racism; United States; History; African American civil rights workers; Race relations; Legislators; SOCIAL SCIENCE; African Americans; Civil rights; Civil rights movements; Anthropology; Cultural; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY; Discrimination & Race Relations; Biography
Other titles: Senator & the sharecropper
Notes: Originally published in 2008 by The New Press.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-353) and index.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: Sunflower County, 1994 -- 1 -- 1; title: Sunflower County, 1904 -- 6 -- 2; title: Planter's Son, Sharecroppers' Daughter -- 33 -- 3; title: "Cotton Is Dynamite": New Deals in Sunflower County -- 65 -- 4; title: "An Enormous Tragedy in the Making": Revolutions in Sunflower County and Abroad -- 99 -- 5; title: "From Cotton-to Communism-to Segregation!": The Senator's Rise to Power -- 132 -- 6; title: "No One Can Honestly Say Negroes Are Satisfied": The Sharecropper Embraces the Movement -- 167 -- 7; title: 1964: Confrontations -- 198 -- 8; title: "This Is America's Sickness" -- 221 -- 9; title: "The Pendulum Is Swinging Back" -- 253 -- 10; title: "Right on Back to the Plantation"-- 279.