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Hattiesburg
An American City in Black and White
William Sturkey
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Hattiesburg
An American City in Black and White
William Sturkey
Ă propos de ce livre
Winner of the ZĂłcalo Public Square Book Prize
Benjamin L. Hooks Award Finalist "An insightful, powerful, and moving book."
âKevin Boyle, author of Arc of Justice "Sturkey's clear-eyed and meticulous book pulls off a delicate balancing act. While depicting the terrors of Jim Crow, he also shows how Hattiesburg's black residents, forced to forge their own communal institutions, laid the organizational groundwork for the civil rights movement."
â New York Times If you really want to understand Jim Crowâwhat it was and how African Americans rose up to defeat itâyou should start by visiting Mobile Street in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, the heart of the historic black downtown. There you can still see remnants of the shops and churches where, amid the violence and humiliation of segregation, men and women gathered to build a remarkable community. Hattiesburg takes us into the heart of this divided town and deep into the lives of families on both sides of the racial divide to show how the fabric of their existence was shaped by the changing fortunes of the Jim Crow South."Sturkey's magnificent portrait reminds us that Mississippi is no anachronism. It is the dark heart of American modernity."
âRobin D. G. Kelley, author of Thelonious Monk "When they are at their best, historians craft powerful, compelling, often genre-changing pieces of historyâŠWilliam Sturkey is one of those historiansâŠA brilliant, poignant work."
âCharles W. McKinney, Jr., Journal of African American History
Foire aux questions
Informations
Table des matiĂšres
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Map
- Introduction: People of Spirit
- 1. Visionaries
- 2. The Bottom Rail
- 3. The Noble Spirit
- 4. A Little Colony of Mississippians
- 5. Broken Promises
- 6. Those Who Stayed
- 7. Reliance
- 8. Community Children
- 9. Salvation
- 10. A Rising
- 11. Crying in the Wilderness
- 12. When the Movement Came
- Conclusion: Changes
- Archival Abbreviations
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index