Battling the plantation mentality : Memphis and the Black freedom struggle /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Green, Laurie B. (Laurie Beth) (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2007]
Series:	John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture. Civil rights and social justice.
Subjects:	African Americans > Civil rights > Tennessee > Memphis > History > 20th century. African Americans > Segregation > Tennessee > Memphis > History > 20th century. Civil rights movements > Tennessee > Memphis > History > 20th century. African Americans > Tennessee > Memphis > History > 20th century. Racism > Tennessee > Memphis > History > 20th century. Memphis (Tenn.) > Race relations > History > 20th century. Memphis (Tenn.) > History > 20th century. Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

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 volume 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.