The senator and the sharecropper : the freedom struggles of James O. Eastland and Fannie Lou Hamer

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Title:

Author:

Asch, Christopher Myers.

ISBN:

9780807878057

9781469603537

Publication Information:

Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press, 2011.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 368 pages, [8] pages of plates) : illustrations, map

Abstract:

This is the story of the epic struggle for black equality in the 20th century told through the deeply intertwined life histories of the staunch segregationist and wealthy cotton planter, Senator James O. Eastland, and his sharecropper nemesis, Fannie Lou Hamer, who became the spiritual leader of the civil rights movement.

Personal Subject:

Hamer, Fannie Lou.

Eastland, James O. (James Oliver), 1904-1986.

Corporate Subject:

United States. Congress. Senate -- Biography.

United States. Congress. Senate. (OCoLC)fst00530422

Subject Term:

Racism -- Mississippi -- Sunflower County -- History -- 20th century.

African Americans -- Civil rights -- Mississippi -- Sunflower County -- History -- 20th century.

Civil rights movements -- Mississippi -- Sunflower County -- History -- 20th century.

African American civil rights workers -- Mississippi -- Biography.

Children of sharecroppers -- Mississippi -- Biography.