Battling the Plantation Mentality

by Green, Laurie B.

• ISBN13: 9780807831069
• ISBN10: 0807831069
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-05-28
• Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr

Summary

African American freedom is often defined in terms of emancipation and civil rights legislation, but it did not arrive with the stroke of a pen or the rap of a gavel.

Table of Contents

Introduction : migration, memory, and freedom in the urban heart of the delta	p. 1
Memphis before World War II : migrants, mushroom strikes, and the reign of terror	p. 15
Where would the negro women apply for work? : wartime clashes over labor, gender, and racial justice	p. 47
Moral outrage : postwar protest against police violence and sexual assault	p. 81
Night train, freedom train : black youth and racial politics in the early Cold War	p. 112
Our mental liberties : banned movies, black-appeal radio, and the struggle for a new public sphere	p. 142
Rejecting mammy : the urban-rural road in the era of Brown v. Board of Education	p. 183
We were making history : students, sharecroppers, and sanitation workers in the Memphis Freedom Movement	p. 216
Battling the plantation mentality : from the Civil Rights Act to the sanitation strike	p. 251
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