Aaron Henry Of Mississippi

Author : Minion K. C. Morrison
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 1557287597
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aaron Henry of Mississippi written by Minion K. C. Morrison and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2015-06-05 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2016 Lillian Smith Book Award When Aaron Henry returned home to Mississippi from World War II service in 1946, he was part of wave of black servicemen who challenged the racial status quo. He became a pharmacist through the GI Bill, and as a prominent citizen, he organized a hometown chapter of the NAACP and relatively quickly became leader of the state chapter. From that launching pad he joined and helped lead an ensemble of activists who fundamentally challenged the system of segregation and the almost total exclusion of African Americans from the political structure. These efforts were most clearly evident in his leadership of the integrated Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party delegation, which, after an unsuccessful effort to unseat the lily-white Democratic delegation at the Democratic National Convention in 1964, won recognition from the national party in 1968. The man who the New York Times described as being “at the forefront of every significant boycott, sit-in, protest march, rally, voter registration drive and court case” eventually became a rare example of a social-movement leader who successfully moved into political office. Aaron Henry of Mississippi covers the life of this remarkable leader, from his humble beginnings in a sharecropping family to his election to the Mississippi house of representatives in 1979, all the while maintaining the social-change ideology that prompted him to improve his native state, and thereby the nation.

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Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781617032240
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aaron Henry written by and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the life of civil rights activist Aaron Henry.

Author : Aaron Henry
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781578062126
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aaron Henry written by Aaron Henry and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the life of civil rights activist Aaron Henry.

Author : Françoise N. Hamlin
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807835498
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crossroads at Clarksdale written by Françoise N. Hamlin and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weaving national narratives from stories of the daily lives and familiar places of local residents, Francoise Hamlin chronicles the slow struggle for black freedom through the history of Clarksdale, Mississippi. Hamlin paints a full picture of the town ov

Author : Douglas L. Conner
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781604731736
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Black Physician's Story written by Douglas L. Conner and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1985 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The autobiography of a black doctor in white Mississippi during the Jim Crow era and the fierce struggle for civil rights

Author : James Patterson Smith
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781604735932
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beaches, Blood, and Ballots written by James Patterson Smith and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2000 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, the first to focus on the integration of the Gulf Coast, is Dr. Gilbert R. Mason's eyewitness account of harrowing episodes that occurred there during the civil rights movement. Newly opened by court order, documents from the Mississippi Sovereignty Commission's secret files enhance this riveting memoir written by a major civil rights figure in Mississippi. He joined his friends and allies Aaron Henry and the martyred Medgar Evers to combat injustices in one of the nation's most notorious bastions of segregation. In Mississippi, the civil rights struggle began in May 1959 with "w

Author : John Dittmer
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252065071
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Local People written by John Dittmer and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the monumental battle waged by civil rights organizations and by local people to establish basic human rights for all citizens of Mississippi

Author : Ted Ownby
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1617039330
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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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

Author : William McCord
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496809378
Total Pages : 128 pages
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Download or read book Mississippi written by William McCord and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2016-10-24 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1964, sociologist William McCord, long interested in movements for social change in the United States, began a study of Mississippi's Freedom Summer. Stanford University, where McCord taught, had been the site of recruiting efforts for student volunteers for the Freedom Summer project by such activists as Robert Moses and Allard Lowenstein. Described by his wife as “an old-fashioned liberal,” McCord believed that he should both examine and participate in events in Mississippi. He accompanied student workers and black Mississippians to courthouses and Freedom Houses, and he attracted police attention as he studied the mechanisms of white supremacy and the black nonviolent campaign against racial segregation. Published in 1965 by W. W. Norton, his book, Mississippi: The Long, Hot Summer, is one of the first examinations of the events of 1964 by a scholar. It provides a compelling, detailed account of Mississippi people and places, including the thousands of student workers who found in the state both opportunities and severe challenges. McCord's work sought to communicate to a broad audience the depth of repression in Mississippi. Here was evidence of the need for federal action to address what he recognized as both national and southern failures to secure civil rights for black Americans. His field work and activism in Mississippi offered a perspective that few other academics or other white Americans had shared. Historian Françoise N. Hamlin provides a substantial introduction that sets McCord's work within the context of other narratives of Freedom Summer and explores McCord's broader career that combined distinguished scholarship with social activism.

Author : William H. Lawson
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496816382
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book No Small Thing written by William H. Lawson and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2018-03-29 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mississippi Freedom Vote in 1963 consisted of an integrated citizens' campaign for civil rights. With candidates Aaron Henry, a black pharmacist from Clarksdale for governor, and Reverend Ed King, a college chaplain from Vicksburg for lieutenant governor, the Freedom Vote ran a platform aimed at obtaining votes, justice, jobs, and education for blacks in the Magnolia State. Through speeches, photographs, media coverage, and campaign materials, William H. Lawson examines the rhetoric and methods of the Mississippi Freedom Vote. Lawson looks at the vote itself rather than the already much-studied events surrounding it, an emphasis new in scholarship. Even though the actual campaign was carried out from October 13 to November 4, the Freedom Vote's impact far transcended those few weeks in the fall. Campaign manager Bob Moses rightly calls the Freedom Vote "one of the most unique voting campaigns in American history." Lawson demonstrates that the Freedom Vote remains a key moment in the history of civil rights in Mississippi, one that grew out of a rich tradition of protest and direct action. Though the campaign is overshadowed by other major events in the arc of the civil rights movement, Lawson regards the Mississippi Freedom Vote as an early and crucial exercise of citizenship in a lineage of racial protest during the 1960s. While more attention has been paid to the March on Washington and the protests in Birmingham or to the assassination of John F. Kennedy and the Freedom Summer murders, this book yields a long-overdue, in-depth analysis of this crucial movement.