Hattiesburg : an American city in black and white / William Sturkey.

In this rich multigenerational saga of race and family in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, William Sturkey reveals the personal stories behind the men and women who struggled to uphold their southern "way of life" against the threat of desegregation, and those who fought to tear it down in the name of just...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sturkey, William (Author)
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2019.
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Physical Description:442 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction: People of spirit
  • Visionaries
  • The bottom rail
  • The noble spirit
  • A little colony of Mississippians
  • Broken promises
  • Those who stayed
  • Reliance
  • Community children
  • Salvation
  • A rising
  • Crying in the wilderness
  • When the movement came
  • Conclusion: Changes.