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Let the People Decide: Black Freedom and White Resistance Movements in Sunflower County, Mississippi, 1945-1986

Let the People Decide: Black Freedom and White Resistance Movements in Sunflower County, Mississippi, 1945-1986


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In the middle of the Mississippi Delta lies rural, black-majority Sunflower County. J. Todd Moye examines the social histories of civil rights and white resistance movements in Sunflower, tracing the development of organizing strategies in separate racial communities over four decades. Sunflower County was home to both James Eastland, one of the most powerful reactionaries in the U.S. Senate in the twentieth century, and Fannie Lou Hamer, the freedom-fighting sharecropper who rose to national prominence as head of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. Sunflower was the birthplace of the Citizen's Council, the white South's pre-eminent anti-civil rights organization, but it was also a hotbed of SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) organizing and a fountainhead of freedom culture. Using extensive oral history interviews and archival research, Moye situates the struggle for democracy in Sunflower County within the context of national developments in the civil rights movement. Arguing that the civil rights movement cannot be understood as a national monolith, Moye reframes it as the accumulation of thousands of local movements, each with specific goals and strategies. By continuing the analysis into the 1980s, Let the People Decide pushes the boundaries of conventional periodization, recognizing the full extent of the civil rights movement.

About the Author :
J. Todd Moye is assistant professor of history and director of the oral history program at the University of North Texas.

Review :
"An important book. . . . Puts the civil rights saga in a new perspective." -- American Historical Review "Avaluable history of black activism in Sunflower . . . add[s] new richness and complexity to what otherwise seems like an all-too-familiar story." -- Chicago Tribune "Moye provides a splendid, original, and balanced account of the form and function of civil rights in one of the most racist [counties] in Mississippi. . . . This gracefully written study covers all aspects of the civil rights movement while shedding valuable lights on the racist mentality that prevailed during the period." -- Journal of Social History "Offers another crucial piece in the puzzle that is the overall history of the Civil Rights Movement. . . . A thorough representation of a community central to the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi." -- Journal of African American History


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780807828953
  • Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
  • Publisher Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
  • Edition: New edition
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Width: 156 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0807828955
  • Publisher Date: 25 Oct 2004
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Height: 235 mm
  • No of Pages: 296
  • Sub Title: Black Freedom and White Resistance Movements in Sunflower County, Mississippi, 1945-1986


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