The Senator and the Sharecropper - The Freedom Struggles of James O. Eastland and Fannie Lou Hamer (Paperback, New edition)

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.

General

Imprint:	The University of North Carolina Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	2011
First published:	February 2011
Authors:	Chris Myers Asch
Dimensions:	235 x 156 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	392
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-8078-7202-4
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > History of other lands Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Equal opportunities Books > History > History of other lands
LSN:	0-8078-7202-4
Barcode:	9780807872024

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