Chris Myers Asch: 2 books
The Senator and the Sharecropper
The Freedom Struggles of James O. Eastland and Fannie Lou Hamer
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
In this fascinating study of race, politics, and economics in Mississippi, Chris Myers Asch tells the story of two extraordinary personalities--Fannie Lou Hamer and James O. Eastland--who represented deeply opposed sides of the civil rights movement. Both were from Sunflower County: Eastland was a...
Chocolate City
A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation's Capital
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Monumental in scope and vividly detailed, Chocolate City tells the tumultuous, four-century story of race and democracy in our nation's capital. Emblematic of the ongoing tensions between America's expansive democratic promises and its enduring racial realities, Washington often has served as a national...