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Hattiesburg - An American City in Black and White (Hardcover)
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Hattiesburg - An American City in Black and White (Hardcover)
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Winner of the 2020 Zocalo Public Square Book Prize A rich,
multigenerational saga of race and family in Hattiesburg,
Mississippi, that tells the story of how Jim Crow was built, how it
changed, and how the most powerful social movement in American
history came together to tear it down. If you really want to
understand Jim Crow-what it was and how African Americans rose up
to defeat it-you should start by visiting Mobile Street in
Hattiesburg, Mississippi, the heart of the historic black downtown.
There you can see remnants of the shops and churches where, amid
the violence and humiliation of segregation, men and women gathered
to build a remarkable community. William Sturkey introduces us to
both old-timers and newcomers who arrived in search of economic
opportunities promised by the railroads, sawmills, and factories of
the New South. He also takes us across town and inside the homes of
white Hattiesburgers to show how their lives were shaped by the
changing fortunes of the Jim Crow South. Sturkey reveals the
stories behind those who struggled to uphold their southern "way of
life" and those who fought to tear it down-from William Faulkner's
great-grandfather, a Confederate veteran who was the inspiration
for the enigmatic character John Sartoris, to black leader Vernon
Dahmer, whose killers were the first white men ever convicted of
murdering a civil rights activist in Mississippi. Through it all,
Hattiesburg traces the story of the Smith family across multiple
generations, from Turner and Mamie Smith, who fled a life of
sharecropping to find opportunity in town, to Hammond and Charles
Smith, in whose family pharmacy Medgar Evers and his colleagues
planned their strategy to give blacks the vote.
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