Let the People Decide,9780807855614

Let the People Decide

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ISBN13: 9780807855614
ISBN10: 0807855618
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2004-11-01
Publisher(s): Univ of North Carolina Pr
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Summary

In the middle of the Mississippi Delta lies rural, black-majority Sunflower County. Moye examines the social histories of civil rights and white resistance movements in Sunflower, tracing the development of organising strategies in separate racial communities over four decades.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations xi
Prologue. At the Hands of Parties Known: The Social Force of Racialized Justice in the Mississippi Delta 3(19)
Introduction
22(18)
What It Is to Be without Freedom, 1945--1955
40(24)
Organized Aggression Must Be Met by Organized Resistance, 1954--1960
64(23)
Our Power Must Come from Ourselves: Civil Rights Organizing, 1960--1964
87(32)
Sunflower County Is in for a Thorough Working Over: Freedom Summer and After
119(29)
Questions That Liberalism Is Incapable of Answering: Organizing Alternatives, 1964--1977
148(23)
Concerned Citizens: Civil Rights Organizing in the Wake of the Civil Rights Movement
171(34)
Epilogue 205(14)
Notes 219(30)
Bibliography 249(20)
Acknowledgments 269(4)
Index 273

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