A Different Day
Author: Greta de Jong
Category: Other3
Published: 2010
Series:
View: 235
Read OnlineExamining African Americans' struggles for freedom and justice in rural Louisiana during the Jim Crow and civil rights eras, Greta de Jong illuminates the connections between the informal strategies of resistance that black people pursued in the early twentieth century and the mass protests that emerged in the 1950s and 1960s. Using evidence drawn from oral histories and a wide range of other sources, she demonstrates that rural African Americans were politically aware and active long before civil rights organizers arrived in the region in the 1960s to encourage voter registration and demonstrations against segregation. De Jong explores the numerous, often-subtle methods African Americans used to resist oppression within the confines of the Jim Crow system. Such everyday forms of resistance included developing strategies for educating black children, creating strong community institutions, and fighting back against white violence. In the wake of the economic changes that...
List Chapter or Page:
Page 1Page 2Page 3Page 4Page 5Page 6Page 7Page 8Page 9Page 10Page 11Page 12Page 13Page 14Page 15Page 16Page 17Page 18Page 19Page 20 View More >>- The Hot Pilots
- The Grimoire of Yule (The Shadows of Legend Book 1)
- The Theory of Death
- Caravaggio
- Nuttier Than Pecan Pie
- The Auckland University Press Anthology of New Zealand Literature
- Zack's Montana Bride (Sweet, Clean Western Historical Romance)(Montana Ranchers and Brides Series)
- The grass is greener