Battling the plantation mentality : Memphis and the Black freedom struggle /
African American freedom is often defined by emancipation and civil rights legislation, but it did not arrive with the stroke of a pen or the rap of a gavel. This book argues that no single event makes this plainer than the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers' strike, which culminated in the assass...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
2007
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Series: | John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.
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Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |