"Originally published in 2008 by The New Press"--T.p. verso. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
"Right on Back to the Plantation" 279. 1 Sunflower County, 1904 6 -- 2 Planter's Son, Sharecroppers' Daughter 33 -- 3 "Cotton Is Dynamite": New Deals in Sunflower County 65 -- 4 "An Enormous Tragedy in the Making": Revolutions in Sunflower County and Abroad 99 -- 5 "From Cotton-to Communism-to Segregation!": The Senator's Rise to Power 132 -- 6 "No One Can Honestly Say Negroes Are Satisfied": The Sharecropper Embraces the Movement 167 -- 7 1964: Confrontations 198 -- 8 "This Is America's Sickness" 221 -- 9 "The Pendulum Is Swinging Back" 253 -- 10 "Right on Back to the Plantation" 279.
Summary:
Chronicles the life and times of two natives of Mississippi's Sunflower County who became central civil rights figures: U.S. Senator James Eastland, scion of one of the region's oldest plantation families and a rigid segregationist, and Fanny Lou Hamer, the sharecroppers' daughter who led the drive for voting rights in Mississippi.
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