Title Battling the plantation mentality : Memphis and the Black freedom struggle / Laurie B. Green

Published Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2007] ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (415 pages) : illustrations, maps Series The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture. Contents Migration, memory, and freedom in the urban heart of the Delta -- Memphis before World War II: migrants, mushroom strikes, and the reign of terror -- Where would the Negro women apply for work?: wartime clashes over labor, gender, and racial justice -- Moral outrage: postwar protest against police violence and sexual assault -- Night train, Freedom Train: black youth and racial politics in the early Cold War -- Our mental liberties: banned movies, black-appeal radio, and the struggle for a new public sphere -- Rejecting mammy: the urban-rural road in the era of Brown v. Board of Education -- We were making history: students, sharecroppers, and sanitation workers in the Memphis freedom movement -- Battling the plantation mentality: from the Civil Rights Act to the sanitation strike Summary African American freedom is often defined by emancipation and civil rights legislation, but it did not arrive with the stroke of a pen or the rap of a gavel. This book argues that no single event makes this plainer than the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers' strike, which culminated in the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. It demonstrates that the civil rights movement was battling an ongoing 'plantation mentality' based on race, gender, and power, which permeated southern culture long before - and even after - the groundbreaking legislation of the mid-1960s Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-379) 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 digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Online resource (HeinOnline, viewed June 29, 2021) Subject African Americans -- Civil rights -- Tennessee -- Memphis -- History -- 20th century African Americans -- Segregation -- Tennessee -- Memphis -- History -- 20th century Civil rights movements -- Tennessee -- Memphis -- History -- 20th century African Americans -- Tennessee -- Memphis -- History -- 20th century Racism -- Tennessee -- Memphis -- History -- 20th century POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies. African Americans African Americans -- Civil rights African Americans -- Segregation Civil rights movements Race relations Racism Bürgerrechtsbewegung Bürgerrecht Rassentrennung Ethnische Beziehungen SUBJECT Memphis (Tenn.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century Memphis (Tenn.) -- History -- 20th century Subject Tennessee -- Memphis Schwärze USA Memphis, Tenn. Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book LC no. 2006039792 ISBN 9780807888872 0807888877 9781469604534 1469604531

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