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Voices from the Mississippi Hill Country - The Benton County Civil Rights Movement (Hardcover)
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Voices from the Mississippi Hill Country - The Benton County Civil Rights Movement (Hardcover)
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Voices from the Mississippi Hill Country is a collection of
interviews with residents of Benton County, Mississippi - an area
with a long and fascinating civil rights history. The product of
more than twenty-five years of work by the Hill Country Project,
this volume examines a revolutionary period in American history
through the voices of farmers, teachers, sharecroppers, and
students. No other rural farming county in the American South has
yet been afforded such a deep dive into its civil rights
experiences and their legacies. These accumulated stories truly
capture life before, during, and after the movement. The authors'
approach places the region's history in context and reveals
everyday struggles. African American residents of Benton County had
been organizing since the 1930s. Citizens formed a local chapter of
the NAACP in the 1940s and '50s. One of the first Mississippi
counties to get a federal registrar under the 1965 Voting Rights
Act, Benton achieved the highest per capita total of African
American registered voters in Mississippi. Locals produced a
regular, clandestinely distributed newsletter, the Benton County
Freedom Train. In addition to documenting this previously
unrecorded history, personal narratives capture pivotal moments of
individual lives and lend insight into the human cost and the
long-term effects of social movements. Benton County residents
explain the events that shaped their lives and ultimately, in their
own humble way, helped shape the trajectory of America. Through
these first-person stories and with dozens of captivating photos
covering more than a century's worth of history, the volume
presents a vivid picture of a people and a region still striving
for the prize of equality and justice.
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