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Author Sturkey, William, author

Title Hattiesburg : an American city in black and white / William Sturkey
Published Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, [2019]
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Description 1 online resource (442 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Introduction: People of spirit -- Visionaries -- The bottom rail -- The noble spirit -- A little colony of Mississippians -- Broken promises -- Those who stayed -- Reliance -- Community children -- Salvation -- A rising -- Crying in the wilderness -- When the movement came -- Conclusion: Changes
Summary In this rich multigenerational saga of race and family in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, William Sturkey reveals the personal stories behind the men and women who struggled to uphold their southern "way of life" against the threat of desegregation, and those who fought to tear it down in the name of justice and racial equality.-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject African Americans -- Segregation -- Mississippi -- Hattiesburg -- History
White people -- Mississippi -- Hattiesburg -- Attitudes
African Americans -- Mississippi -- Hattiesburg -- Public opinion
Civil rights movements -- Mississippi -- Hattiesburg -- History -- Personal narratives
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century.
African Americans -- Public opinion
African Americans -- Segregation
Civil rights movements
Race relations
White people -- Attitudes
SUBJECT Hattiesburg (Miss.) -- Race relations -- History
Subject Mississippi -- Hattiesburg
Genre/Form History
Personal narratives
Personal narratives.
Récits personnels.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780674240667
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9780674240674
0674240677
9780674240681
0674240685