Thunder of freedom : Black leadership and the transformation of 1960s Mississippi
This book offers a look at the struggle for rights and equality in one of the most active and broad-based community organizing operations in the South. The book chronicles the arduous process of bringing early leaders - mainly farmers and town dwellers - into a coalition with the schoolteachers, preachers, and others professionals. Together, the coalition achieved success in electing the first Black representative in the 20th century to sit in the Mississippi House
eBook, English, 2013
University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, 2013