The senator and the sharecropper
Subtitle: the freedom struggles of James O. Eastland and Fannie Lou Hamer
By: Chris Myers Asch.
Publisher: New Press; Distributed by W.W. Norton
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9781595583321
Subjects: Hamer, Fannie Lou; Eastland, James O. -- 1904-1986; United States. -- Congress. -- Senate -- Biography; Racism -- Mississippi -- Sunflower County -- History -- 20th century; African Americans -- Civil rights -- Mississippi -- Sunflower County -- History -- 20th century; Civil rights movements -- Mississippi -- Sunflower County -- History -- 20th century; African American civil rights workers -- Mississippi -- Biography; Children of sharecroppers -- Mississippi -- Biography; Legislators -- United States -- Biography; Sunflower County (Miss.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
Genres: Biography.
Other titles: Senator & the sharecropper
Description: "Sunflower County, Mississippi, is a land of deep contradictions. It boasts some of the world's richest soil, yet has produced widespread poverty that lingers to this day. It stood at the epicenter of the civil rights movement, yet still suffers from racial inequality. It has been on the forefront of globalization, yet continues to stagnate economically." "The Senator and the Sharecropper explores these paradoxes, telling the story of two larger-than-life personalities who epitomized the county's extremes: the senator, James O. Eastland, a wealthy white cotton planter who was one of the most powerful segregationists in the U.S. Senate, and the sharecropper, Fannie Lou Hamer, who grew up desperately poor just a few miles from the Eastland plantation and rose to become the spiritual leader of the Mississippi freedom struggle."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-353) and index.