The Senator and the Sharecropper
The Freedom Struggles of James O. Eastland and Fannie Lou Hamer
New York : New Press, 2008.
Format: Book
Description: xvi, 368 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
The story of two larger-than-life personalities from one humble corner of the Missippi Delta: the senator, James O. Eastland, a fabulously wealthy cotton planter and the sharecropper, Fannie Lou Hamer, who grew up desperately poor a few miles from Eastland's plantation. Asch charts the epic struggle for black equality in the 20th century by telling the story of the two deeply intertwined life histories of the staunch segregationist senator and his sharecropper nemesis.
Subjects:
Hamer, Fannie Lou.
Eastland, James O. (James Oliver), 1904-1986.
United States. Congress. Senate -- Biography.
Racism -- Mississippi -- Sunflower County -- History -- 20th century.
African Americans -- Civil rights -- Mississippi -- Sunflower County -- History -- 20th century.
Civil rights movements -- Mississippi -- Sunflower County -- History -- 20th century.
African American civil rights workers -- Mississippi -- Biography.
Children of sharecroppers -- Mississippi -- Biography.
Legislators -- United States -- Biography.
Sunflower County (Miss.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
Hamer, Fannie Lou.
Eastland, James O. (James Oliver), 1904-1986.
United States. Congress. Senate -- Biography.
Racism -- Mississippi -- Sunflower County -- History -- 20th century.
African Americans -- Civil rights -- Mississippi -- Sunflower County -- History -- 20th century.
Civil rights movements -- Mississippi -- Sunflower County -- History -- 20th century.
African American civil rights workers -- Mississippi -- Biography.
Children of sharecroppers -- Mississippi -- Biography.
Legislators -- United States -- Biography.
Sunflower County (Miss.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
ISBN:
9781595583321 (hc.)
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SOCIAL SCI Race Asc | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [299]-353) and index.