Ain't gonna let nobody turn me round : the pursuit of racial justice in the rural South /
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Author / Creator: | Couto, Richard A., 1941- |
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Imprint: | Philadelphia : Temple University Press, c1991. |
Description: | xi, 421 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm. |
Language: | English |
Subject: | African Americans -- Civil rights -- Southern States. African Americans -- Southern States -- Economic conditions. African Americans -- Southern States -- Social conditions. African Americans -- Southern States -- Interviews. African Americans. African Americans -- Civil rights. African Americans -- Economic conditions. African Americans -- Social conditions. Race relations. Rural conditions. Southern States -- Race relations. Southern States -- Rural conditions. Southern States. Interviews. |
Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1190391 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue
- Introduction
- Part 1. The Pursuit of Justice
- Chapter 1. We Lost the Idea of Being Afraid Haywood County, Tennessee
- Chapter 2. The Value of Improved Self-Worth Lee County, Arkansas
- Chapter 3. The Time for Waiting Had Been Used Up Lowndes County, Alabama
- Chapter 4. The People Are Trying to Do Something Sea Islands, South Carolina
- Part II. The Elusion of Emancipation
- Chapter 5. Economics: Land Reform and Landless Farmers
- Chapter 6. Education: Instruction and Incrementalism
- Chapter 7. Politics: Civil Wrongs and Civil Rights
- Chapter 8. Health: Contexts and Cures
- Part III. The Politics of Hope
- Chapter 9. Process: Sources of Reform
- Chapter 10. Progress: Race, Leadership, and Change
- Conclusion
- Epilogue
- Notes, Interviews, Index
- Notes
- Interviews
- Index