After Freedom Summer
Subtitle: how race realigned Mississippi politics, 1965-1986
By: Chris Danielson
Series: New perspectives on the history of the South; New perspectives on the history of the South
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Gainesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9780813037387
Subjects: Politics and government; Race relations; Influence; History; Mississippi Freedom Project; Political aspects; African Americans; Political participation; African American politicians
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-278) and index.
Table of contents: title: Black Politics in Mississippi to 1965; title: Plates of Silver, Plates of Mud : 1965-1970; title: Gubernatorial Fantasies and Gradual Gains; title: Fused But Not Healed; title: Reapportionment : Giving Clark Some Company; title: The Class of 1979 and the Second Generation of Black Political Power; title: Lead into Gold? : The Alchemy of County Redistricting; title: City Wards and Jacksonian Democracy; title: The Delta District and the Continuing Politics of Race; title: Epilogue: Javitses into Eastlands, Eastlands into Barbours.