Let the People Decide: Black Freedom and White Resistance Movements in Sunflower County, Mississippi, 1945-1986

by J. Todd Moye

Book Overview

In the middle of the Mississippi Delta lies rural, black-majority Sunflower County. J. Todd Moye examines the social histories of civil rights and white resistance movements in Sunflower, tracing the development of organizing strategies in separate racial communities over four decades.

Sunflower County was home to both James Eastland, one of the most powerful reactionaries in the U.S. Senate in the twentieth century, and Fannie Lou Hamer,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807855618
• ISBN13: 9780807855614
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"