Right to revolt [electronic resource] :the crusade for racial justice in Mississippi's Central Piney Woods / Patricia Michelle Boyett.
By: Boyett, Patricia Michelle [author.].
Contributor(s): Project Muse.
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BookPublisher: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2015. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages cm).Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781496804341; 1496804341.Subject(s): African Americans -- Mississippi -- Piney Woods (Region) -- History -- 20th century | Race discrimination -- Mississippi -- Piney Woods (Region) -- History -- 20th century | Civil rights movements -- Mississippi -- Piney Woods (Region) -- History -- 20th century | African Americans -- Civil rights -- Mississippi -- Piney Woods (Region) -- History -- 20th century | Piney Woods (Miss. : Region) -- Race relationsGenre/Form: Electronic books. DDC classification: 323.1196/07307625 Online resources: Full text available: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Prologue: roots of revolt -- Monsters, mockingbirds, and morality plays -- Massive resistance and the making of the movement -- Freedom days and white knights -- Operation freedom summer -- Wars of attrition -- War on the white knights and the white city -- Trials of the Ku Klux Klan -- Stalemate -- Epilogue: road to redemption.
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