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After Freedom Summer : how race realigned Mississippi politics, 1965-1986 /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Danielson, Chris
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2011]
Series:New perspectives on the history of the South.
Subjects:
African Americans > Mississippi > Politics and government > 20th century.
African American politicians > Mississippi > History > 20th century.
Political participation > Mississippi > History > 20th century.
Mississippi Freedom Project > Influence.
Mississippi > Politics and government > 1951-
Mississippi > Race relations > History > 20th century.
Mississippi > Race relations > Political aspects > History > 20th century.
Table of Contents:
  • Black politics in Mississippi to 1965
  • Plates of silver, plates of mud : 1965-1970
  • Gubernatorial fantasies and gradual gains
  • Fused but not healed
  • Reapportionment : Giving Clark some company
  • The class of 1979 and the second generation of Black political power
  • Lead into gold? : The alchemy of county redistricting
  • City wards and Jacksonian democracy
  • The Delta district and the continuing politics of race
  • Epilogue: Javitses into Eastlands, Eastlands into Barbours.