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MISSISSIPPI HARMONY
MEMOIRS OF A FREEDOM FIGHTER |
| By: |
Winson Hudson, Constance Curry, Derrick Bell (Foreword) |
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Electronic book text |
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£19.96 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1403973520 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781403973528 |
| Publisher: |
PALGRAVE USA |
| Pub. date: |
9 November, 2002 |
| Pages: |
208 |
| Description: |
The experiences of the rural all-black town of Harmony, Mississippi, as told in the voice of Winson Hudson, an extraordinary woman who led Harmony in its fight for racial equality during the Jim Crow and civil rights eras. |
| Synopsis: |
In 1963, Winson Hudson finally registered to vote in Leake County, Mississippi, when she interpreted part of the state constitution by saying, "It meant what it said and it said what it meant." Her first attempt had been in 1937. A lifelong native of the rural, all-black community of Harmony, Winson has lived through some of the most racially oppressive periods in her state's history-and has devoted her life to combating discrimination. With her sister Dovie, Winson filed the first lawsuit to desegregate the public schools in a rural county. Helping to establish the county NAACP chapter in 1961, Winson served as its president for 38 years. Her work has included voting rights, school desegregation, health care, government loans, telephone service, good roads, housing, and childcare-issues that were intertwined with the black freedom struggle. Winson's narrative, presented in her own words with historical background from noted author and activist Constance Curry, is both triumphant and tragic, inspiring and disturbing.It illustrates the virtually untold story of the role that African American women played in the civil rights movement at the local level in black communities throughout the South. |
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US |
| Imprint: |
Palgrave Macmillan |
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Non-returnable |
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