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An unseen light : black struggles for freedom in Memphis, Tennessee

Title

An unseen light : black struggles for freedom in Memphis, Tennessee / edited by Aram Goudsouzian and Charles W. McKinney Jr.

Publication

Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, [2018]
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Description

414 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Civil rights and the struggle for Black equality in the twentieth century

Uniform Title

Civil rights and the struggle for Black equality in the twentieth century.

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

"In the hands of the Lord": migrants and community politics in the late nineteenth century / Brian D. Page -- "The saving of black America's body and white America's soul": the lynching of Ell Persons and the rise of black activism in Memphis / Darius Young -- Equal power: Bishop Charles H. Mason and the National Tabernacle fire / Elton H. Weaver III -- "There will be no discrimination": race, power, and the Memphis flood of 1937 / David Welky -- Taylor-made: envisioning black Memphis at midcentury / Beverly Greene Bond -- "We'll have no race trouble here": racial politics and Memphis's reign of terror / Jason Jordan -- Power and protection: gender and black working-class protest narratives, 1940-1948 / Laurie B. Green -- Black Memphians and new frontiers: the Shelby County Democratic Club, the Kennedy administration, and the quest for black political power, 1959-1964 / Elizabeth Gritter -- "Since I was a citizen, I had the right to attend the library": the key role of the public library in the civil rights movement in Memphis / Steven A. Knowlton -- "You pay one hell of a price to be black": Rufus Thomas and the racial politics of Memphis music / Charles Hughes -- "If the march cannot be here, then where?": Memphis and the Meredith March / Aram Goudsouzian -- Nonviolence, black power, and the surveillance state in Memphis's war on poverty / Anthony C. Siracusa -- Beyond 1968: the 1969 Black Monday protest in Memphis / James Conway -- Beauty and the black student revolt: black student activism at Memphis State and the politics of campus "beauty spaces" / Shirletta Kinchen -- After Stax: race, sound, and neighborhood revitalization / Zandria F. Robinson -- Black workers matter: the continuing search for racial and economic equality in Memphis / Michael Honey -- Coda / Charles W. McKinney, Jr.

Call Number

Sc E 18-1158

ISBN

9780813175515
0813175518
9780813175539 (canceled/invalid)
0813175534 (canceled/invalid)
9780813175522 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2017058296

OCLC

1001457104

Title

An unseen light : black struggles for freedom in Memphis, Tennessee / edited by Aram Goudsouzian and Charles W. McKinney Jr.

Publisher

Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, [2018]

Copyright Date

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Civil rights and the struggle for Black equality in the twentieth century

Civil rights and the struggle for Black equality in the twentieth century.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Goudsouzian, Aram, editor.

McKinney, Charles Wesley, 1967- editor.

Other Form:

Electronic version: Unseen light. Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, [2018] 9780813175539 (OCoLC)1024312333

Research Call Number

Sc E 18-1158

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