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In the Shadow of Selma
The Continuing Struggle for Civil Rights in the Rural South
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2004
Summary
On March 7, 1965, voting rights demonstrators were brutally beaten as they crossed the Edmund Petis bridge in Selma, Alabama. One of the most-publicized incidents of the civil rights campaign, images from that day have been seared into the nation's consciousness. Yet little has been written about the civil rights events in the surrounding counties, the vast sections of the rural south.
Cynthia Griggs Fleming addresses this gap by bringing to light the struggle for equality of the citizens of Wilcox County, Alabama. Although right next door to Selma, their story has been largely ignored. Through the eyes of the residents of the county, Fleming relates a struggle punctuated by cowardice and courage, audacity and timidity, fear and foolishness. And, in the end, the entrenched power structure refused to yield and the county remains segregated to this day.
Personal and compelling, In the Shadow of Selma is essential reading for everyone interested in the continuing struggle for civil rights in the United States.
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Copyright year
2004
ISBN-Print
978-0-7425-0811-8
ISBN-Online
978-1-4617-0458-4
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
349
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Table of Contents No access
Preface: The Forgotten Rural Black Poor No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction: You'll Git Dar after While No access
Chapter 1: Disfranchisement, Despair, and Disillusionment No access Pages 1 - 34
Chapter 2: Onward Christian Soldiers: The Coming of the Missionaries during the Early Years, 1883–1930 No access Pages 35 - 66
Chapter 3: New Negroes in the Cotton Field: The Great Depression and Gee's Bend No access Pages 67 - 98
Chapter 4: Making the World Safe for Democracy? What about Wilcox County? No access Pages 99 - 134
Chapter 5: Vote No access Pages 135 - 186
Chapter 6: Ain't Gonna Study War No More: The Struggle to Desegregate Wilcox County's Schools No access Pages 187 - 234
Chapter 7: After the Movement No access Pages 235 - 282
Chapter 8: The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same No access Pages 283 - 314
