Bloody Lowndes : civil rights and Black power in Alabama's Black Belt / Hasan Kwame Jeffries.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jeffries, Hasan Kwame, 1973-
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2009], ©2009.
Subjects:
African Americans > Civil rights > Alabama > Lowndes County > History > 20th century.
Civil rights movements > Alabama > Lowndes County > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Alabama > Lowndes County > Politics and government > 20th century.
Lowndes County (Ala.) > Race relations > History > 20th century.
Black Belt (Ala. and Miss.) > Race relations > History > 20th century.
Lowndes County (Ala.) > Politics and government > 20th century.
Black Belt (Ala. and Miss.) > Politics and government > 20th century.
Physical Description:xx, 348 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Conditions unfavorable to the rise of the Negro : the pursuit of freedom rights before the civil rights era
  • I didn't come here to knock : the making of a grassroots social movement
  • We ain't going to shed a tear for Jon : school desegregation, White resistance, and the African American response
  • I'm going to try to take some of the freedom here back home : the federal government and the fight for freedom rights
  • We gonna show Alabama just how bad we are : the birth of the original Black Panther Party and the development of freedom politics
  • Tax the rich to feed the poor : Black power and the election of 1966
  • Now is the time for work to begin : Black politics in the post-civil rights era
  • Epilogue: That black dirt gets in your soul : the fight for freedom rights in the days ahead.