A different day : African American struggles for justice in rural Louisiana, 1900-1970

Summary: Here, the author examines African Americans' struggles for freedom and justice during the Jim Crow and civil rights eras. Using a wide range of sources, she illuminates the connections between the informal strategies of resistance in the early 20th century and the mass protests of the 50s and 60s.

Record details

OCLC: ocm52382304
ISBN: 9780807853795
ISBN: 0807853798
ISBN: 9780807827116
ISBN: 0807827118
ISBN: 9780807860106
ISBN: 0807860107
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 316 pages) : illustrations, maps
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Published: Chapel Hill ;London :The University of North Carolina Press,[2002]
Publisher: Chapel Hill ; London : The University of North Carolina Press, [2002]
Copyright: ©2002

Content descriptions

Bibliography:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-298) and index.

Contents:

And did not pay them a cent : Reconstruction and the roots of the twentieth-century freedom struggle -- Our plight here is bad : the limits of protest in a new South plantation economy -- They will not fight in the open : strategies of resistance in the Jim Crow era -- We feel you all aut to help us : struggles for citizenship, 1914-1929 -- With the aid of God and the F.S.A. : the Louisiana Farmers' Union and the freedom struggle in the New Deal era -- I am an American born Negro : Black empowerment and white responses during World War II -- The social order have changed : the emergence of the civil rights movement, 1945-1960 -- To provide leadership and an example : the Congress of Racial Equality and local people in the 1960s.