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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Author / Creator: Green, Laurie B. (Author)
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Language notes:English.
Imprint: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2007]
Series:John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.
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