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Greater Freedom
The Evolution of the Civil Rights Struggle in Wilson, North Carolina
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2010
Summary
Greater Freedom offers a groundbreaking long-term community study of Wilson County, North Carolina. Charting the evolution of Wilson's civil rights movement, Charles McKinney argues that African Americans in Wilson created an expansive notion of freedom that influenced every aspect of life in the region and directly confronted the state's reputation for moderation. Through exhaustive research and a compelling narrative, McKinney chronicles the approaches and perspectives that blacks in this eastern North Carolina county utilized to confront white supremacy. In the face of violence, intimidation, and marginalization, voting rights activists, educational reformers, the collaboration of union members, students, and working class black women activists in Wilson built a grassroots movement that helped shape the course of the national civil rights movement in America.
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Copyright year
2010
ISBN-Print
978-0-7618-5230-8
ISBN-Online
978-0-7618-5231-5
Publisher
Hamilton Books, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
258
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Acknowledgments No access
Map No access
Introduction No access
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Chapter One. Building Freedom from the Ground Up No access Pages 1 - 32
Chapter Two. The Idea of Citizenship Was Never Greater: Organizing the Foundations of a Movement No access Pages 33 - 70
Chapter Three, “A Little Too Much for a Self-Respecting White Man to Swallow”: Brown and Its Aftermath No access Pages 71 - 114
Photospread.indd No access Pages 115 - 123
Chapter Four. We Began to Question Where We Never Questioned Before: The Struggle to Build a Movement No access Pages 124 - 171
Chapter Five. Somewhere Down the Line We Decided to Organize: Integration, Housing and the Ascendancy of “Lower Income Negro Citizens” No access Pages 172 - 214
Conclusion: Race, Class, Memory, and the Pursuit of Greater Freedom No access Pages 215 - 228
