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The Senator and the Sharecropper: The Freedom Struggles of James O. Eastland and Fannie Lou Hamer
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ISBN-13: | 9780807872024 |
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Publisher: | The University of North Carolina Press |
Publication date: | 02/01/2011 |
Edition description: | 1 |
Pages: | 392 |
Product dimensions: | 6.10(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.80(d) |
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Asch's history traces and illuminates the development of white racism and total political domination over the majority black population in Sunflower County. The last chapter was so riveting that I was reading past midnight.Charles McLaurin, former field secretary, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Through vivid, accurate portraits of two Mississippians locked in deadly embrace, Chris Myers Asch shows why blacks remain on the bottom in Sunflower County, Mississippi, today. We may still blind ourselves to the ways that the social system after 1990 is still totally unfair to African Americans, but to do so, we will have to burnor ignoreThe Senator and the Sharecropper.James W. Loewen, author of Lies My Teacher Told Me