Battling the Plantation Mentality: Memphis and the Black Freedom StruggleUniv of North Carolina Press, 8 dec. 2009 - 432 sidor African American freedom is often defined in terms of emancipation and civil rights legislation, but it did not arrive with the stroke of a pen or the rap of a gavel. No single event makes this more plain, Laurie Green argues, than the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers' strike, which culminated in the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Exploring the notion of "freedom" in postwar Memphis, Green demonstrates that the civil rights movement was battling an ongoing "plantation mentality" based on race, gender, and power that permeated southern culture long before--and even after--the groundbreaking legislation of the mid-1960s. With its slogan "I AM a Man!" the Memphis strike provides a clarion example of how the movement fought for a black freedom that consisted of not only constitutional rights but also social and human rights. As the sharecropping system crumbled and migrants streamed to the cities during and after World War II, the struggle for black freedom touched all aspects of daily life. Green traces the movement to new locations, from protests against police brutality and racist movie censorship policies to innovations in mass culture, such as black-oriented radio stations. Incorporating scores of oral histories, Green demonstrates that the interplay of politics, culture, and consciousness is critical to truly understanding freedom and the black struggle for it. |
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... African American history and culture) Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 978-0-8078-3106-9 (cloth: alk. paper) isbn 978-0-8078-5802-8 (pbk.: alk. paper) 1. African Americans ... African Americans—Segregation— Tennessee— ...
... African American history and culture) Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 978-0-8078-3106-9 (cloth: alk. paper) isbn 978-0-8078-5802-8 (pbk.: alk. paper) 1. African Americans ... African Americans—Segregation— Tennessee— ...
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... African Americans to challenge the urban attitudes and practices that they identified as barriers to freedom. During oral history interviews three decades later, Turner and other working-class black Memphians invoked what to them were ...
... African Americans to challenge the urban attitudes and practices that they identified as barriers to freedom. During oral history interviews three decades later, Turner and other working-class black Memphians invoked what to them were ...
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... African Americans in southern cities, freedom remained an elusive goal. Taking its cue from narratives such as those by Sally Turner and Taylor Rogers, this book explores how working-class African Americans thought about freedom, how ...
... African Americans in southern cities, freedom remained an elusive goal. Taking its cue from narratives such as those by Sally Turner and Taylor Rogers, this book explores how working-class African Americans thought about freedom, how ...
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... African Americans compared and contrasted the racial parameters of city life to cultural memories of the plantation. These critiques thus emanated from the crucible of the historic plantation South but served as a means to assess ...
... African Americans compared and contrasted the racial parameters of city life to cultural memories of the plantation. These critiques thus emanated from the crucible of the historic plantation South but served as a means to assess ...
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... African American leaders sought advancement for their communities via ... Americans challenged the idea of fighting against the Axis powers abroad on ... African American activists presented themselves as champions of black freedom and ...
... African American leaders sought advancement for their communities via ... Americans challenged the idea of fighting against the Axis powers abroad on ... African American activists presented themselves as champions of black freedom and ...
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Wartime Clashes over Labor Gender and Racial Justice | 47 |
Postwar Protest against Police Violence and Sexual Assault | 81 |
Black Youth and Racial Politics in the Early Cold War | 112 |
Banned Movies BlackAppeal Radio and the Struggle for a New Public Sphere | 142 |
The UrbanRural Road in the Era of Brown v Board of Education | 183 |
Students Sharecroppers and Sanitation Workers in the Memphis Freedom Movement | 216 |
From the Civil Rights Act to the Sanitation Strike | 251 |
Conclusion | 288 |
Notes | 295 |
Bibliography | 359 |
Acknowledgments | 381 |
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Battling the Plantation Mentality: Memphis and the Black Freedom Struggle Laurie Boush Green Fragmentarisk förhandsgranskning - 2007 |
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