Download or read book A Little Taste of Freedom written by Emilye Crosby and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2006-05-26 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this long-term community study of the freedom movement in rural, majority-black Claiborne County, Mississippi, Emilye Crosby explores the impact of the African American freedom struggle on small communities in general and questions common assumptions that are based on the national movement. The legal successes at the national level in the mid 1960s did not end the movement, Crosby contends, but rather emboldened people across the South to initiate waves of new actions around local issues. Escalating assertiveness and demands of African Americans--including the reality of armed self-defense--were critical to ensuring meaningful local change to a remarkably resilient system of white supremacy. In Claiborne County, a highly effective boycott eventually led the Supreme Court to affirm the legality of economic boycotts for political protest. NAACP leader Charles Evers (brother of Medgar) managed to earn seemingly contradictory support from the national NAACP, the segregationist Sovereignty Commission, and white liberals. Studying both black activists and the white opposition, Crosby employs traditional sources and more than 100 oral histories to analyze the political and economic issues in the postmovement period, the impact of the movement and the resilience of white supremacy, and the ways these issues are closely connected to competing histories of the community.
Download or read book Claiborne County Mississippi written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Comprehensive Overall Economic Program for Claiborne County Mississippi written by Claiborne County Area Development Association (Miss.) and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Carved in Stone Cemeteries of Claiborne County Mississippi written by William L. Sanders and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2014-03-03 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Sanders discovered his first gravesite while hiking the Claiborne County back roads and, fascinated by the information it revealed and the simplicity of the marker, began exploring in search of other old stones. Carved in Stone serves as a reference text for people searching for ancestors. The book lists not only names and birth/death information, but reveals marriages, illness, military service, and other details linking Claiborne County's citizens together throughout history.
Download or read book Slaves Claiborne County Mississippi written by Brenda Terry and published by . This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By 1860, in the state of Mississippi, there were 353,899 whites and 437,404 African Americans, of which less than 1,000 were free. Claiborne County, located in the southwestern part of the state on the Mississippi River, was an integral piece of the Cotton Kingdom. Ms. Terry has made every effort to be as comprehensive as possible, providing information not only on Claiborne County's African American slaves and their descendants but on the European American slave owners and their descendants as well. The author presents the data in a clear, concise, easy-to-read format. The first chapter consists of names gathered from Will Book A, 1804-1833. The names are sequenced by the slave's first name and also includes the names of the owners, the date the will was written, the owner's heirs, each heir's relationship to the owner, the page number that the will appears on in Will Book A, and the slave's spouse, children and siblings, if applicable. Some entries also have notes concerning further bequeathals, names of the will trustees, etc. Chapter Two consists of data compiled from the Port Gibson Property List, 1846-1858, and documents the slave's first name, the owner's names (both husband and wife), the slave's age, the date the information was recorded, and the slave's parents and siblings, if applicable. Additional notes here, again, concern further bequeathals, names of the will trustees, etc. The final chapter focuses on information found in Certificates for Slave Sales, 1858-1860. Here the author found slaves who had been purchased in Missouri, Kentucky, and Tennessee who were then taken to Claiborne County to be sold. The information consists of the slave's name, the trader, the city or county and state from which the slave was purchased, and the slave's age (when provided); some entries include the name of the owner. The book also contains a list of witnesses to wills found in Will Book A and an every-name index that allows the reader to search for names by the owner's and relative's last name in addition to the slave's and relative's first names. The author is a family historian who has traced her family roots back 175 years.
Download or read book Archeology of Mississippi written by Calvin Smith Brown and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sons of Mississippi written by Paul Hendrickson and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2015-02-18 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They stand as unselfconscious as if the photograph were being taken at a church picnic and not during one of the pitched battles of the civil rights struggle. None of them knows that the image will appear in Life magazine or that it will become an icon of its era. The year is 1962, and these seven white Mississippi lawmen have gathered to stop James Meredith from integrating the University of Mississippi. One of them is swinging a billy club. More than thirty years later, award-winning journalist and author Paul Hendrickson sets out to discover who these men were, what happened to them after the photograph was taken, and how racist attitudes shaped the way they lived their lives. But his ultimate focus is on their children and grandchildren, and how the prejudice bequeathed by the fathers was transformed, or remained untouched, in the sons. Sons of Mississippi is a scalding yet redemptive work of social history, a book of eloquence and subtlely that tracks the movement of racism across three generations and bears witness to its ravages among both black and white Americans.
Download or read book Claiborne County Miss written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Brother Robert written by Annye C. Anderson and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2020-06-09 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Rolling Stone-Kirkus Best Music Book of 2020 “[Brother Robert} book does much to pull the blues master out of the fog of myth.”—Rolling Stone An intimate memoir by blues legend Robert Johnson's stepsister, including new details about his family, music, influences, tragic death, and musical afterlife Though Robert Johnson was only twenty-seven years young and relatively unknown at the time of his tragic death in 1938, his enduring recordings have solidified his status as a progenitor of the Delta blues style. And yet, while his music has retained the steadfast devotion of modern listeners, much remains unknown about the man who penned and played these timeless tunes. Few people alive today actually remember what Johnson was really like, and those who do have largely upheld their silence-until now. In Brother Robert, nonagenarian Annye C. Anderson sheds new light on a real-life figure largely obscured by his own legend: her kind and incredibly talented stepbrother, Robert Johnson. This book chronicles Johnson's unconventional path to stardom, from the harrowing story behind his illegitimate birth, to his first strum of the guitar on Anderson's father's knee, to the genre-defining recordings that would one day secure his legacy. Along the way, readers are gifted not only with Anderson's personal anecdotes, but with colorful recollections passed down to Anderson by members of their family-the people who knew Johnson best. Readers also learn about the contours of his working life in Memphis, never-before-disclosed details about his romantic history, and all of Johnson's favorite things, from foods and entertainers to brands of tobacco and pomade. Together, these stories don't just bring the mythologized Johnson back down to earth; they preserve both his memory and his integrity. For decades, Anderson and her family have ignored the tall tales of Johnson "selling his soul to the devil" and the speculative to fictionalized accounts of his life that passed for biography. Brother Robert is here to set the record straight. Featuring a foreword by Elijah Wald and a Q&A with Anderson, Wald, Preston Lauterbach, and Peter Guralnick, this book paints a vivid portrait of an elusive figure who forever changed the musical landscape as we know it.
Download or read book Mississippi Official and Statistical Register written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Soil Survey of Claiborne County Mississippi written by Bertram Higbie Hendrickson and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Soil Survey Claiborne County Mississippi written by Henry Clyde Lane and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi written by Ted Ownby and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2013-10-17 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays from innovative, leading scholars covering the gamut of the civil rights movement
Download or read book Claiborne County Miss February 23 1899 Referred to the House Calendar and Ordered to be Printed written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Port Gibson Claiborne County written by Claiborne County Chamber of Commerce (Port Gibson, Miss.) and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Methodists written by and published by . This book was released on 200? with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compilation of primarily legal documents concerning the Methodist Church in Claiborne County, Miss.
