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

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On this long-term community study of the freedom movement in rural, majority-black Claiborne County, Mississippi, Emilye Crosby explores the affect of the African American freedom struggle on small communities on the whole and questions common assumptions which might be in response to the national movement. The legal successes on the national level in the mid 1960s did not end the movement, Crosby contends, but fairly emboldened people around the South to initiate waves of new actions around local issues.

Escalating assertiveness and demands of African Americans–including the reality of armed self-defense–were critical to ensuring meaningful local change to a remarkably resilient system of white supremacy. In Claiborne County, a highly effective boycott ultimately led the Supreme Court to affirm the legality of economic boycotts for political protest. NAACP leader Charles Evers (brother of Medgar) managed to earn seemingly contradictory fortify from the national NAACP, the segregationist Sovereignty Commission, and white liberals. Studying both black activists and the white opposition, Crosby employs traditional sources and more than 100 oral histories to analyze the political and economic issues in the postmovement period, the affect of the movement and the resilience of white supremacy, and the ways these issues are closely connected to competing histories of the community.

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