Mississippi Harmony

Author : W. Hudson,C. Curry
Publisher : Springer
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2002-11-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781403973528

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Mississippi Harmony by W. Hudson,C. Curry Pdf

In 1963, Winson Hudson finally registered to vote in Leake County, Mississippi, when she interpreted part of the state constitution by saying, "It meant what it said and it said what it meant." Her first attempt had been in 1937. A lifelong native of the rural, all-black community of Harmony, Winson has lived through some of the most racially oppressive periods in her state s history - and has devoted her life to combatting discrimination. With her sister Dovie, Winson filed the first lawsuit to desegregate the public schools in a rural county. Helping to establish the county NAACP chapter in 1961, Winson served as its president for 38 years. Her work has included voting rights, school desegregation, health care, government loans, telephone service, good roads, housing, and childcare - issues that were intertwined with the black freedom struggle. Winson s narrative, presented in her own words with historical background from noted author and activist Constance Curry, is both triumphant and tragic, inspiring and disturbing. It illustrates the virtually untold story of the role that African American women played in the civil rights movement at the local level in black communities throughout the South.

Author : Winson Hudson,Constance Curry
Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2003-12-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1403964076

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Mississippi Harmony by Winson Hudson,Constance Curry Pdf

A stirring biography of one of the heroes of the civil rights movement in the U.S. follows the adventures of the woman who led the all-black town of Harmony, Mississippi, to racial equality over the past century. Reprint.

Author : Crystal R. Sanders
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781469627816

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A Chance for Change by Crystal R. Sanders Pdf

In this innovative study, Crystal Sanders explores how working-class black women, in collaboration with the federal government, created the Child Development Group of Mississippi (CDGM) in 1965, a Head Start program that not only gave poor black children access to early childhood education but also provided black women with greater opportunities for political activism during a crucial time in the unfolding of the civil rights movement. Women who had previously worked as domestics and sharecroppers secured jobs through CDGM as teachers and support staff and earned higher wages. The availability of jobs independent of the local white power structure afforded these women the freedom to vote in elections and petition officials without fear of reprisal. But CDGM's success antagonized segregationists at both the local and state levels who eventually defunded it. Tracing the stories of the more than 2,500 women who staffed Mississippi's CDGM preschool centers, Sanders's book remembers women who went beyond teaching children their shapes and colors to challenge the state's closed political system and white supremacist ideology and offers a profound example for future community organizing in the South.

Author : Natalie G. Adams,James H. Adams
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781496819574

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Just Trying to Have School by Natalie G. Adams,James H. Adams Pdf

After the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling, no state fought longer or harder to preserve segregated schools than Mississippi. This massive resistance came to a crashing halt in October 1969 when the Supreme Court ruled in Alexander v. Holmes Board of Education that "the obligation of every school district is to terminate dual school systems at once and to operate now and hereafter only unitary schools." Thirty of the thirty-three Mississippi districts named in the case were ordered to open as desegregated schools after Christmas break. With little guidance from state officials and no formal training or experience in effective school desegregation processes, ordinary people were thrown into extraordinary circumstances. However, their stories have been largely ignored in desegregation literature. Based on meticulous archival research and oral history interviews with over one hundred parents, teachers, students, principals, superintendents, community leaders, and school board members, Natalie G. Adams and James H. Adams explore the arduous and complex task of implementing school desegregation. How were bus routes determined? Who lost their position as principal? Who was assigned to what classes? Without losing sight of the important macro forces in precipitating social change, the authors shift attention to how the daily work of "just trying to have school" helped shape the contours of school desegregation in communities still living with the decisions made fifty years ago.

Author : Bruce Watson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101190180

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Freedom Summer by Bruce Watson Pdf

A riveting account of one of the most remarkable episodes in American history. In his critically acclaimed history Freedom Summer, award- winning author Bruce Watson presents powerful testimony about a crucial episode in the American civil rights movement. During the sweltering summer of 1964, more than seven hundred American college students descended upon segregated, reactionary Mississippi to register black voters and educate black children. On the night of their arrival, the worst fears of a race-torn nation were realized when three young men disappeared, thought to have been murdered by the Ku Klux Klan. Taking readers into the heart of these remarkable months, Freedom Summer shines new light on a critical moment of nascent change in America. "Recreates the texture of that terrible yet rewarding summer with impressive verisimilitude." -Washington Post

Author : Mary D. Coleman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781009182560

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Land, Promise, and Peril by Mary D. Coleman Pdf

A unique qualitative study of race and economic and social mobility across generations for seven families from the Mississippi Delta.

Author : Lorenzo Gordin Yates
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Fossils
ISBN : STANFORD:36105032191152

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Catalogue of Fossils in Lorenzo G. Yates' Colletion by Lorenzo Gordin Yates Pdf

Author : Michael Vinson Williams
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781557286468

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Medgar Evers by Michael Vinson Williams Pdf

The sculptor Ed Hamilton presents information on his portrait bust of African-American civil rights activist Medgar Wiley Evers (1925-1963). Evers was murdered on June 12, 1963. He worked for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and campaigned to win equal rights for African Americans in the south. The bust was cast in bronze at Bright Foundry in Louisville, Kentucky. General Mills, Inc. commissioned the bust.

Author : Lorenzo Gordin Yates
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Fossils
ISBN : UCBK:C034663170

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Catalogues: Mollusca and Fossils by Lorenzo Gordin Yates Pdf

Author : United States. Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1346 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1851
Category : United States
ISBN : STANFORD:36105009900395

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The Congressional Globe by United States. Congress Pdf

Author : Minrose Gwin
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780820335636

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Remembering Medgar Evers by Minrose Gwin Pdf

As the first NAACP field secretary for Mississippi, Medgar Wiley Evers put his life on the line to investigate racial crimes (including Emmett Till's murder) and to organize boycotts and voter registration drives. On June 12, 1963, he was shot in the back by white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith as the civil rights leader unloaded a stack of "Jim Crow Must Go" T-shirts in his own driveway. His was the first assassination of a high-ranking public figure in the civil rights movement. While Evers's death ushered in a decade of political assassinations and ignited a powder keg of racial unrest nationwide, his life of service and courage has largely been consigned to the periphery of U.S. and civil rights history. In her compelling study of collective memory and artistic production, Remembering Medgar Evers, Minrose Gwin engages the powerful body of work that has emerged in response to Evers's life and death--fiction, poetry, memoir, drama, and songs from James Baldwin, Margaret Walker, Eudora Welty, Lucille Clifton, Bob Dylan, and Willie Morris, among others. Gwin examines local news accounts about Evers, 1960s gospel and protest music as well as contemporary hip-hop, the haunting poems of Frank X Walker, and contemporary fiction such as The Help and Gwin's own novel, The Queen of Palmyra. In this study, Evers springs to life as a leader of "plural singularity," who modeled for southern African Americans a new form of cultural identity that both drew from the past and broke from it; to quote Gwendolyn Brooks, "He leaned across tomorrow." Fifty years after his untimely death, Evers still casts a long shadow. In her examination of the body of work he has inspired, Gwin probes wide-ranging questions about collective memory and art as instruments of social justice. "Remembered, Evers's life's legacy pivots to the future," she writes, "linking us to other human rights struggles, both local and global." A Sarah Mills Hodge Fund Publication.

Author : Stuart Buck
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010-05-25
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780300163131

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Acting White by Stuart Buck Pdf

Commentators from Bill Cosby to Barack Obama have observed the phenomenon of black schoolchildren accusing studious classmates of "acting white." How did this contentious phrase, with roots in Jim Crow-era racial discord, become a part of the schoolyard lexicon, and what does it say about the state of racial identity in the American system of education?The answer, writes Stuart Buck in this frank and thoroughly researched book, lies in the complex history of desegregation. Although it arose from noble impulses and was to the overall benefit of the nation, racial desegegration was often implemented in a way that was devastating to black communities. It frequently destroyed black schools, reduced the numbers of black principals who could serve as role models, and made school a strange and uncomfortable environment for black children, a place many viewed as quintessentially "white."Drawing on research in education, history, and sociology as well as articles, interviews, and personal testimony, Buck reveals the unexpected result of desegregation and suggests practical solutions for making racial identification a positive force in the classroom.

Author : Joseph Miller Wilson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1859
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IND:30000112901388

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The Presbyterian Historical Almanac, and Annual Remembrancer of the Church, V. 1-2, 7-8. 1858-60, 1865-66 by Joseph Miller Wilson Pdf

Author : Robert Blade
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781496801708

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Tupelo Man by Robert Blade Pdf

In 1924, George McLean, an Ole Miss sophomore and the spoiled son of a judge, attended a YMCA student mission conference whose free-thinking organizers aimed to change the world. They changed George McLean's. But not instantly. As vividly recounted in the first biography of this significant figure in southern history, Tupelo Man: The Life and Times of a Most Peculiar Newspaper Publisher, McLean drifted through schools and jobs, always questioning authority, always searching for a way to put his restless vision into practical use. In the Depression's depths, he was fired from a teaching job at what is now Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee, over his socialist ideas and labor organizing work. By 1934 he decided he had enough of working for others and that he would go into business for himself. In dirt-poor northeast Mississippi, the Tupelo Journal was for sale, and McLean used his wife's money to buy what he called “a bankrupt newspaper from a bankrupt bank.” As he struggled to keep the paper going, his Christian socialism evolved into a Christian capitalism that transformed the region. He didn't want a bigger slice of the pie for himself, he said; he wanted a bigger pie for all. But McLean (1904–1983) was far from a saint. He prayed about his temper, with little result. He was distant and aloof toward his two children—adopted through a notorious Memphis baby-selling operation. His wife, whom he deeply loved in his prickly way, left him once and threatened to leave again. “I don't know why I was born with this chip on my shoulder,” he told her. Tupelo Man looks at this far-from-ordinary publisher in an intimate way that offers a fascinating story and insight into our own lives and times.

Author : United States. Office of Education
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 894 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1921
Category : Education
ISBN : CORNELL:31924061141374

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Bulletin by United States. Office of Education Pdf