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

Published Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (282 pages) : maps Contents The forging of the alluvial empire -- Tensions of empire -- The killing fields -- The black people's burden -- Revolt against mean things -- A war within a war Summary 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 individuals and through collective struggle, black men and women fought back, demanding a just return for their crops and laying claim to a democratic vision of citizenship. Nan Woodruff shows how the freedom fighters of the 1960s would draw on this half-century tradition of protest, thus expanding our standard notions of the civil rights movement and illuminating a neglected but significant slice of the American black experience Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-268) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject African Americans -- Civil rights -- Mississippi -- Delta (Region) -- History -- 20th century African Americans -- Civil rights -- Arkansas -- Arkansas Delta -- History -- 20th century Sharecroppers -- Mississippi -- Delta (Region) -- Social conditions -- 20th century Sharecroppers -- Arkansas -- Arkansas Delta -- Social conditions -- 20th century Civil rights movements -- Mississippi -- Delta (Region) -- History -- 20th century Civil rights movements -- Arkansas -- Arkansas Delta -- History -- 20th century Plantation life -- Mississippi -- Delta (Region) -- History -- 20th century Plantation life -- Arkansas -- Arkansas Delta -- History -- 20th century HISTORY -- State & Local -- General. HISTORY -- United States -- General. African Americans -- Civil rights Civil rights movements Plantation life Race relations Social conditions Burgerrechten. Plantages. Pachters. Delta's. SUBJECT Delta (Miss. : Region) -- Race relations Arkansas Delta (Ark.) -- Race relations Arkansas Delta (Ark.) -- Social conditions Subject Arkansas -- Arkansas Delta Mississippi -- Delta (Region) Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2002191341 ISBN 9780674045330 0674045335

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