Our portion of hell : Fayette County, Tennessee: an oral history of the struggle for Civil Rights /
"Our Portion of Hell: Fayette County, Tennessee: An Oral History of the Struggle for Civil Rights offers an unrivalled account of how a rural Black community drew together to combat the immense forces aligned against them. Author Robert Hamburger first visited Fayette County as part of a studen...
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| Format: | eBook Electronic |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2022] |
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| Online Access: | Click here for full text |
Table of Contents:
- Preface to the new edition
- Introduction
- Part I: "Thinking for myself"
- the beginning:1959-1960
- Part II. "Going on to register""
- 1960-1961
- Part III. "A few movements to improve things"
- 1963-1965
- Part IV. "It's gonna take bone determination"
- School integration: 1965-1967
- Part V. "It's a power structure type of operation"
- Federal aid: 1966-1971
- Part VI. "Black man don't get no justice here"
- The Hobson incident. 1969
- Part VII. "Doin something you knew was right"
- Trouble in the schools: 1969-1970
- Part VIII. "We oughta take all these sonsofbitches off and kill 'em"
- 1969-1970
- Part IX. "I don't know how I can stop"
- Afterword to the new edition
- Acknowledgments
- List of illustrations.