Greta De Jong: 2 books
A Different Day
African American Struggles for Justice in Rural Louisiana, 1900-1970
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2003
Examining African Americans' struggles for freedom and justice in rural Louisiana during the Jim Crow and civil rights eras, Greta de Jong illuminates the connections between the informal strategies of resistance that black people pursued in the early twentieth century and the mass protests that emerged...
You Can’t Eat Freedom
Southerners and Social Justice after the Civil Rights Movement
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Two revolutions roiled the rural South after the mid-1960s: the political revolution wrought by the passage of civil rights legislation, and the ongoing economic revolution brought about by increasing agricultural mechanization. Political empowerment for black southerners coincided with the transformation...