De Jong, Greta.

A different day : African American struggles for justice in rural Louisiana, 1900-1970 / Greta de Jong. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2002. - xvi, 316 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-298) and index.

Machine generated contents note: 1 And Did Not Pay Them a Cent: Reconstruction and the -- Roots of the Twentieth-Century Freedom Struggle 10 -- 2 Our Plight Here Is Bad: The Limits of Protest in a New -- South Plantation Economy 19 -- 3 They Will Not Fight in the Open: Strategies of Resistance in -- the Jim Crow Era 41 -- 4 We Feel You All Aut to Help Us: Struggles for Citizenship, -- 1914-1929 64 -- 5 With the Aid of God and the FSA: The Louisiana Farmers' -- Union and the Freedom Struggle in the New Deal Era 85 -- 6 I Am an American Born Negro: Black Empowerment and -- White Responses during World War II 116 -- 7 The Social Order Have Changed: The Emergence of the Civil -- Rights Movement, 1945-1960 144 -- 8 To Provide Leadership and an Example: The Congress of -- Racial Equality and Local People in the 1960s 175.

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Rural population--History--Louisiana--20th century.
African American civil rights workers--History--Louisiana--20th century.
Civil rights movements--History--Louisiana--20th century.
Rural African Americans--History--Civil rights--Louisiana--20th century.
African Americans--Social conditions--Louisiana--20th century.
Rural African Americans--Politics and government--Louisiana--20th century.


Louisiana--Politics and government.
Louisiana--Rural conditions.
Louisiana--Race relations.

E185.93.L6 / .D38 2002

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