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Life and Death in the Delta: African American Narratives of Violence, Resilience, and Social Change (Palgrave Studies in Oral History)

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Winner of the 2007 Oral History Affiliation Book Award
 
Finalist, 2008 National Council on Public History Book Award
 
Using oral histories with African American activists and community leaders, Kim Lacy Rogers explores the civil rights movement in a number of Mississippi communities within the context of the region’s history of white supremacy, racial oppression, and African American cultural vitality. Terrorism, black poverty, and economic exploitation ended in a condition of collective trauma and social suffering for thousands of black Deltans within the twentieth century. This work finds the have an effect on of that oppression, and of African American traditions of community service and leadership within the lives of men and women who changed into activists. It also examines the disillusionment and anger that many Delta leaders feel concerning the changes that took place all the way through the post-movement years.

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