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Battling the Plantation Mentality: Memphis and the Black Freedom Struggle (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture)

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 | #476655 in Books |  The University of North Carolina Press |  2007-05-28 |  2007-05-28 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.25 x1.08 x6.13l,1.49 | File type: PDF | 432 pages

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||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Looked so long for a book like this.|By komboa|I moved to Memphis in 2010, and although there had been a civil rights movement, did not know much generally about the social history of the city.. This book helped a great deal in understanding the racism, oppression, and struggle by Black people for civil and human rights starting in the 1940's and coming forward. I actually like| |Well researched and well documented. . . . Richly grounded in oral interviews. . . .Recommend[ed] to those interested in working class histories, the history of the Civil Rights movements, and Black women's history.--American Studies||

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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. No single event makes this more plain, Laurie Green argues, than the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers' strike, which culminated in the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Exploring the notion of "freedom" in postwar Memphis, Green demonstrates that the civil rights movement was battling an ongoing "plant...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Battling the Plantation Mentality: Memphis and the Black Freedom Struggle (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture)   |  Laurie B. Green. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.

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