Life and Death in the Delta: African American Narratives of Violence, Resilience, and Social Change

by Kim Lacy Rogers

Book Overview

Using oral histories with African American activists and community leaders, Kim Lacy Rogers explores the civil rights movement in several Mississippi communities in the context of the region's history of white supremacy, racial oppression, and African American cultural vitality. Terrorism, black poverty, and economic exploitation led to a condition of collective trauma and social suffering for thousands of black Deltans in the twentieth century. This...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403960364
• ISBN13: 9781403960368
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 9.2"