A Little Taste of Freedom: The Black Freedom Struggle in Claiborne County, Mississippi

by Emilye Crosby

Book Overview

In this long-term community study of the freedom movement in rural, majority-black Claiborne County, Mississippi, Emilye Crosby explores the impact of the African American freedom struggle on small communities in general and questions common assumptions that are based on the national movement. The legal successes at the national level in the mid 1960s did not end the movement, Crosby contends, but rather emboldened people across the South to initiate...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080785638X
• ISBN13: 9780807856383
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"