American Congo : the African American freedom struggle in the Delta / Nan Elizabeth Woodruff.

This is the story of how rural black people struggled against the oppressive sharecropping system of the Arkansas and Mississippi Delta during the first half of the twentieth century. Delta planters, aided by local law enforcement, engaged in peonage, murder, theft, and disfranchisement. As individu...

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Main Author: Woodruff, Nan Elizabeth, 1949-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2003.
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