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Author:

Asch, Christopher Myers.

Title:

The senator and the sharecropper : the freedom struggles of James O. Eastland and Fannie Lou Hamer / Chris Myers Asch.

Publisher:

Distributed by W.W. Norton,

Copyright Date:

2008

Description:

xvi, 368 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., map ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Sunflower County (Miss.)--History--History--20th century.
Racism--Sunflower County--Sunflower County--History--20th century.
African Americans--History--Sunflower County--Sunflower County--History--20th century.
Civil rights movements--Sunflower County--Sunflower County--History--20th century.
Hamer, Fannie Lou.
African American civil rights workers--Mississippi--Biography.
Children of sharecroppers--Mississippi--Biography.
Eastland, James O.--(James Oliver),--1904-1986.
Legislators--United States--Biography.
United States.--Senate--Senate--Biography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-353) and index.

ISBN:

1595583327 (hc.)
9781595583321 (hc.)

LCCN:

2007037378

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OTAX626 -- Wilcox Library (Oskaloosa)