A little taste of freedom
Subtitle: the Black freedom struggle in Claiborne County, Mississippi
By: Emilye Crosby.
Series: The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 354
Subjects: African Americans -- Civil rights -- Mississippi -- Claiborne County -- History -- 20th century.; Civil rights movements -- Mississippi -- Claiborne County -- History -- 20th century.; Whites -- Mississippi -- Claiborne County -- History -- 20th century.; African American civil rights workers -- Mississippi -- Claiborne County -- Biography.; African Americans -- Mississippi -- Claiborne County -- Biography.; Oral history.; Claiborne County (Miss.) -- Race relations.; Claiborne County (Miss.) -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Jim Crow rules; title: A taste of freedom; title: Adapting and preserving white supremacy; title: Working for a better day; title: Reacting to the Brown decision; title: Winning the right to organize; title: A new day begun; title: Moving for freedom; title: It really started out at Alcorn; title: Everybody stood for the boycott; title: Clinging to power and the past; title: Seeing that justice is done; title: Our leader Charles Evers; title: Charles Evers's own little empire; title: A legacy of polarization; title: Not nearly what it ought to be; title: Conclusion : what it is this freedom?; title: Epilogue. looking the devil in the eye: who gets to tell the story?