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The Senator and the Sharecropper - The Freedom Struggles of James O. Eastland and Fannie Lou Hamer (Paperback, New edition)
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The Senator and the Sharecropper - The Freedom Struggles of James O. Eastland and Fannie Lou Hamer (Paperback, New edition)
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In this fascinating study of race, politics, and economics in
Mississippi, Chris Myers Asch tells the story of two extraordinary
personalities--Fannie Lou Hamer and James O. Eastland--who
represented deeply opposed sides of the civil rights movement. Both
were from Sunflower County: Eastland was a wealthy white planter
and one of the most powerful segregationists in the U.S. Senate,
while Hamer, a sharecropper who grew up desperately poor just a few
miles from the Eastland plantation, rose to become the spiritual
leader of the Mississippi freedom struggle. Asch uses Hamer's and
Eastland's entwined histories, set against the backdrop of
Sunflower County's rise and fall as a center of cotton agriculture,
to explore the county's changing social landscape during the
mid-twentieth century and its persistence today as a land separate
and unequal. Asch, who spent nearly a decade in Mississippi as an
educator, offers a fresh look at the South's troubled ties to the
cotton industry, the long struggle for civil rights, and
unrelenting social and economic injustice through the eyes of two
of the era's most important and intriguing figures. |Asch offers a
fresh look at the South's troubled ties to the cotton industry, the
long struggle for civil rights, and unrelenting social and economic
injustice through the eyes of Fannie Lou Hamer and James O.
Eastland, two of the era's most important and intriguing figures.
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