The senator and the sharecropper, the freedom struggles of James O. Eastland and Fannie Lou Hamer, Chris Myers Asch
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The senator and the sharecropper, the freedom struggles of James O. Eastland and Fannie Lou Hamer, Chris Myers Asch
Language
eng
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no index present
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non fiction
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The senator and the sharecropper
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electronic resource
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dictionaries
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Chris Myers Asch
Sub title
the freedom struggles of James O. Eastland and Fannie Lou Hamer
Summary
In this fascinating study of race, politics, and economics in Mississippi, Chris Myers Asch tells the story of two extraordinary personalities--Fannie Lou Hamer and James O. Eastland--who represented deeply opposed sides of the civil rights movement. Both were from Sunflower County: Eastland was a wealthy white planter and one of the most powerful segregationists in the U.S. Senate, while Hamer, a sharecropper who grew up desperately poor just a few miles from the Eastland plantation, rose to become the spiritual leader of the Mississippi freedom struggle. Asch uses Hamer's and Eastland's entwined histories, set against the backdrop of Sunflower County's rise and fall as a center of cotton agriculture, to explore the county's changing social landscape during the mid-twentieth century and its persistence today as a land separate and unequal. Asch, who spent nearly a decade in Mississippi as an educator, offers a fresh look at the South's troubled ties to the cotton industry, the long struggle for civil rights, and unrelenting social and economic injustice through the eyes of two of the era's most important and intriguing figures
Target audience
adult
resource.variantTitle
Senator & the sharecropper
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- African Americans + Civil rights -- Mississippi -- Sunflower County -- History -- 20th century
- Hamer, Fannie Lou
- Legislators -- United States -- Biography
- Electronic books
- African American civil rights workers -- Mississippi -- Biography
- Racism -- Mississippi -- Sunflower County -- History -- 20th century
- Children of sharecroppers -- Mississippi -- Biography
- Civil rights movements -- Mississippi -- Sunflower County -- History -- 20th century
- Eastland, James O., James Oliver, 1904-1986
- Sunflower County (Miss.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
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- Contributor1
- Creator1
- Subject10
- African Americans + Civil rights -- Mississippi -- Sunflower County -- History -- 20th century
- Hamer, Fannie Lou
- Legislators -- United States -- Biography
- Electronic books
- African American civil rights workers -- Mississippi -- Biography
- Racism -- Mississippi -- Sunflower County -- History -- 20th century
- Children of sharecroppers -- Mississippi -- Biography
- Civil rights movements -- Mississippi -- Sunflower County -- History -- 20th century
- Eastland, James O., James Oliver, 1904-1986
- Sunflower County (Miss.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
- Content1