Hamlin, Françoise N.
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2012.
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Part of the series The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture;John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.
Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Introduction: the black freedom struggle at the crossroads — Washington was far away: defining a different post-war delta — M is for Mississippi and murder … and mother — I think freedom and talk freedom: demanding desegregation, 1960-1963 — Fires of frustration: summers of 1963 to 1965 — Children should not be subjected to what is going on there: desegregating schools — It was a peaceful revolution: Johnson’s great society and economic justice in Coahoma County — Epilogue: I have not ended the story for there is no end: continuing histories of Clarksdale’s black freedom struggle — Appendix: black and white freedom summer volunteers in Clarksdale.

Subjects:

• African Americans — Civil rights — Mississippi — Clarksdale — History — 20th century.
• African Americans — Segregation — Mississippi — Clarksdale — History — 20th century.
• Civil rights movements — Mississippi — Clarksdale — History — 20th century.
• Segregation — Mississippi — Clarksdale — History — 20th century.
• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Coahoma County Branch — History.
• Henry, Aaron, 1922-1997.
• Pigee, Vera Mae, 1924-2007.
• Clarksdale (Miss.) — Race relations — History — 20th century.

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