Title: The senator and the sharecropper
First published: 2008
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.
Subjects: African American civil rights workers, African Americans, Biography, Children of sharecroppers, Civil rights, Civil rights movements, History, Legislators, Race relations, Racism, United States, United States. Congress. Senate, Hamer, fannie lou, 1918-1977, African americans, civil rights, Civil rights movements, united states, Legislators, united states, United states, congress, senate, biography, Mississippi, social conditions
Places: Mississippi, Sunflower County, Sunflower County (Miss.), United States
People: Fannie Lou Hamer, James O. Eastland (1904-1986)
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: F347.S9 A83 2008