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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... in north Memphis, Tennessee Black workers getting on trucks in Memphis for a day's work hoeing cotton Black youths ... sit-in demonstrators' arraignment William Edwin Jones pushing Renee Andrewnetta Jones in a stroller during a protest ...
... in north Memphis, Tennessee Black workers getting on trucks in Memphis for a day's work hoeing cotton Black youths ... sit-in demonstrators' arraignment William Edwin Jones pushing Renee Andrewnetta Jones in a stroller during a protest ...
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... in Memphis reverberated well beyond the city limits, as when the Crump machine received national attention for its ... sit-ins erupted in 1960, demanded it immediately. By the end of the 1960s, black liberation and Black Power had gained ...
... in Memphis reverberated well beyond the city limits, as when the Crump machine received national attention for its ... sit-ins erupted in 1960, demanded it immediately. By the end of the 1960s, black liberation and Black Power had gained ...
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... at the Forest Products Chemical Company; and over 100 black women at the Memphis Pecan and Walnut Company. In early April, 70 women, a majority of them African American, staged a “sit-down” mushroom strike at the NewsumWarren Laundry, ...
... at the Forest Products Chemical Company; and over 100 black women at the Memphis Pecan and Walnut Company. In early April, 70 women, a majority of them African American, staged a “sit-down” mushroom strike at the NewsumWarren Laundry, ...
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... at a time when the cio was rocking northern cities with sit-down strikes.33 On the other hand, Edward Meeman, editor of the Memphis Press-Scimitar, one of two daily newspapers in town, threw his support behind federal wage and hours ...
... at a time when the cio was rocking northern cities with sit-down strikes.33 On the other hand, Edward Meeman, editor of the Memphis Press-Scimitar, one of two daily newspapers in town, threw his support behind federal wage and hours ...
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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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