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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... Church wdia Little Leaguers with B. B. King, Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, and Big Joe Turner Entrance to Overton Park Zoo, 1950s Black Memphians registering to vote in March 1959 Supporters of the Volunteer Ticket welcoming Dr. Martin ...
... Church wdia Little Leaguers with B. B. King, Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, and Big Joe Turner Entrance to Overton Park Zoo, 1950s Black Memphians registering to vote in March 1959 Supporters of the Volunteer Ticket welcoming Dr. Martin ...
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... national reputation for its regionally based popular culture. Paradoxically, the sounds emanating from the nightclubs of Beale Street (black Memphis's “Main Street”) and the churches that. 7. 51 70 70 72 78 61 51 A rk ans Introduction 7.
... national reputation for its regionally based popular culture. Paradoxically, the sounds emanating from the nightclubs of Beale Street (black Memphis's “Main Street”) and the churches that. 7. 51 70 70 72 78 61 51 A rk ans Introduction 7.
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... labor and civil rights personality A. Philip Randolph, one courageous minister in Memphis, Reverend George A. Long of Beale Avenue Baptist Church, invited Randolph back to town. “Christ, not Crump, is my Boss,” 12 Introduction.
... labor and civil rights personality A. Philip Randolph, one courageous minister in Memphis, Reverend George A. Long of Beale Avenue Baptist Church, invited Randolph back to town. “Christ, not Crump, is my Boss,” 12 Introduction.
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... church that “Negroes do not want to be well-kept slaves. Like white people they, too, want to be free.”21 Long and Randolph had two intended audiences—Crump and his cronies, on one side, and black Memphians, on the other—that reflected ...
... church that “Negroes do not want to be well-kept slaves. Like white people they, too, want to be free.”21 Long and Randolph had two intended audiences—Crump and his cronies, on one side, and black Memphians, on the other—that reflected ...
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... church's youth group. Bryant's lifelong dedication to civic and community activism in Memphis reflected both continuities and discontinuities between rural and urban life in the Deep South. In Mississippi, as a member of the Willing ...
... church's youth group. Bryant's lifelong dedication to civic and community activism in Memphis reflected both continuities and discontinuities between rural and urban life in the Deep South. In Mississippi, as a member of the Willing ...
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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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