A Different Day

by De Jong, Greta

• ISBN13: 9780807853795
• ISBN10: 0807853798
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-06-01
• Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr

Summary

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. 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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xi
Abbreviations	xv
Introduction	1	(9)
And Did Not Pay Them a Cent: Reconstruction and the Roots of the Twentieth-Century Freedom Struggle	10	(9)
Our Plight Here Is Bad: The Limits of Protest in a New South Plantation Economy	19	(22)
They Will Not Fight in the Open: Strategies of Resistance in the Jim Crow Era	41	(23)
We Feel You All Aut to Help Us: Struggles for Citizenship, 1914-1929	64	(21)
With the Aid of God and the F.S.A.: The Louisiana Farmers' Union and the Freedom Struggle in the New Deal Era	85	(31)
I Am an American Born Negro: Black Empowerment and White Responses during World War II	116	(28)
The Social Order Have Changed: The Emergence of the Civil Rights Movement, 1945-1960	144	(31)
To Provide Leadership and an Example: The Congress of Racial Equality and Local People in the 1960s	175	(32)
Epilogue	207	(8)
Notes	215	(62)
Bibliography	277	(22)
Index	299