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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... World War. Even as they migrated away from the cotton fields to northern and ... Memphis activists sometimes characterized contemporary urban power relations ... Memphis, the urban vortex of the Mississippi Delta cotton region and the ...
... World War. Even as they migrated away from the cotton fields to northern and ... Memphis activists sometimes characterized contemporary urban power relations ... Memphis, the urban vortex of the Mississippi Delta cotton region and the ...
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... Memphis also served as a crossroads of local, regional, national, and international cultures and politics. During the intervening years between the New Deal's restructuring of the cotton economy and the assassination of Dr. King during ...
... Memphis also served as a crossroads of local, regional, national, and international cultures and politics. During the intervening years between the New Deal's restructuring of the cotton economy and the assassination of Dr. King during ...
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Memphis and the Black Freedom Struggle Laurie B. Green. workplaces. Together, these efforts prompted repression by the Crump machine and anticipated the persistent clashes over race and democracy that would ... Memphis before World War II 19.
Memphis and the Black Freedom Struggle Laurie B. Green. workplaces. Together, these efforts prompted repression by the Crump machine and anticipated the persistent clashes over race and democracy that would ... Memphis before World War II 19.
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Memphis and the Black Freedom Struggle Laurie B. Green. to support Crump's gubernatorial candidate, Walter Chandler. As Ralph Bunche later described it, “Many Negroes stayed away from the polls and 'Mistuh ... Memphis before World War II 33.
Memphis and the Black Freedom Struggle Laurie B. Green. to support Crump's gubernatorial candidate, Walter Chandler. As Ralph Bunche later described it, “Many Negroes stayed away from the polls and 'Mistuh ... Memphis before World War II 33.
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Memphis and the Black Freedom Struggle Laurie B. Green. gued, the association should be targeting injustices by white society that led to black homicides.56 For Lee, who was attuned to broader black ... Memphis before World War II 37.
Memphis and the Black Freedom Struggle Laurie B. Green. gued, the association should be targeting injustices by white society that led to black homicides.56 For Lee, who was attuned to broader black ... Memphis before World War II 37.
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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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