Battling the plantation mentality : Memphis and the Black freedom struggle
Laurie B. Green (Author)
African American freedom is often defined by emancipation and civil rights legislation, but it did not arrive with the stroke of a pen or the rap of a gavel. This book argues that no single event makes this plainer than the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers' strike, which culminated in the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. It demonstrates that the civil rights movement was battling an ongoing 'plantation mentality' based on race, gender, and power, which permeated southern culture long before - and even after - the groundbreaking legislation of the mid-1960s
eBook, English, 2007
The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 2007
Electronic books
1 online resource (415 pages) : illustrations, maps
9780807888872, 9781469604534, 0807888877, 1469604531
593230906
Migration, memory, and freedom in the urban heart of the Delta
Memphis before World War II: migrants, mushroom strikes, and the reign of terror
Where would the Negro women apply for work?: wartime clashes over labor, gender, and racial justice
Moral outrage: postwar protest against police violence and sexual assault
Night train, Freedom Train: black youth and racial politics in the early Cold War
Our mental liberties: banned movies, black-appeal radio, and the struggle for a new public sphere
Rejecting mammy: the urban-rural road in the era of Brown v. Board of Education
We were making history: students, sharecroppers, and sanitation workers in the Memphis freedom movement
Battling the plantation mentality: from the Civil Rights Act to the sanitation strike
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