Battling the plantation mentality : Memphis and the Black freedom struggle

Battling the plantation mentality : Memphis and the Black freedom struggle / Laurie B. Green.

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 assass...

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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.
Subjects:
1900-1999
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.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Human Rights.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
African Americans
African Americans > Civil rights
African Americans > Segregation
Civil rights movements
Race relations
Racism
Bürgerrechtsbewegung
Bürgerrecht
Rassentrennung
Ethnische Beziehungen
Memphis (Tenn.) > Race relations > History > 20th century.
Memphis (Tenn.) > History > 20th century.
Tennessee > Memphis
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USA
Memphis, Tenn.
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History
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