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Let The People Decide Black Freedom & White Resistance Movements In Sunflower County Mississippi 1945 1986

by J Todd Moye
Let The People Decide Black Freedom & White Resistance Movements In Sunflower County Mississippi 1945 1986

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ISBN13: 9780807855614
ISBN10: 0807855618
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In the middle of the Mississippi Delta lies rural, black-majority Sunflower County. J. Todd Moye examines the social histories of civil rights and white resistance movements in Sunflower, tracing the development of organizing strategies in separate racial communities over four decades.

Sunflower County was home to both James Eastland, one of the most powerful reactionaries in the U.S. Senate in the twentieth century, and Fannie Lou Hamer, the freedom-fighting sharecropper who rose to national prominence as head of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. Sunflower was the birthplace of the Citizens' Council, the white South's pre-eminent anti-civil rights organization, but it was also a hotbed of SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) organizing and a fountainhead of freedom culture.

Using extensive oral history interviews and archival research, Moye situates the struggle for democracy in Sunflower County within the context of national developments in the civil rights movement. Arguing that the civil rights movement cannot be understood as a national monolith, Moye reframes it as the accumulation of thousands of local movements, each with specific goals and strategies. By continuing the analysis into the 1980s, Let the People Decide pushes the boundaries of conventional periodization, recognizing the full extent of the civil rights movement.

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"This important and well-written book illuminates events across the South and the nation.

(Pete Daniel, National Museum of American History)"

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"[An] important book. . . . Puts the civil rights saga in a new perspective."

— American Historical Review

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Using extensive oral history interviews and archival research, Moye situates the struggle for democracy in Sunflower County, Mississippi within the context of national developments in the civil rights movement. Moye argues that the civil rights movement must be undertstood as the accumulation of thousands of local movements, each with specific goals and strategies. This is the story of the most important social movement in southern history from the grass roots up.

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"Offers another crucial piece in the puzzle that is the overall history of the Civil Rights Movement. . . . A thorough representation of a community central to the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi."

— The Journal of African American History "[An] important book. . . . Puts the civil rights saga in a new perspective."

— American Historical Review "This important and well-written book illuminates events across the South and the nation.

(Pete Daniel, National Museum of American History)"


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J. Todd Moye is director of the National Park Service's Tuskegee Airmen Oral History Project. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

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ISBN:
9780807855614
Binding:
Trade Paperback
Publication date:
10/25/2004
Publisher:
University of North Carolina Press
Pages:
296
Height:
.80IN
Width:
6.10IN
Number of Units:
1
Series Volume:
51
UPC Code:
2147483647
Author:
J Todd Moye
Author:
J. Todd Moye
Subject:
African Americans--Civil rights
Subject:
Mississippi Delta
Subject:
Sunflower County
Subject:
SNCC
Subject:
Civil rights movements
Subject:
Fannie Lou Hamer
Subject:
Freedom Summer
Subject:
African Americans
Subject:
Race relations
Subject:
Citizens Council movement
Subject:
World History-General
Subject:
Sunflower County (Miss.) Race relations.
Subject:
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Subject:
James Eastland
Subject:
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
Subject:
History
Subject:
Social change
Subject:
Racism

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