Hattiesburg : an American city in black and white

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Title:

Hattiesburg : an American city in black and white

Author:

Sturkey, William, author.

Personal Author:

Sturkey, William, author.

Publication Information:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2019.

Physical Description:

442 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Summary:

In this rich multigenerational saga of race and family in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, William Sturkey reveals the personal stories behind the men and women who struggled to uphold their southern "way of life" against the threat of desegregation, and those who fought to tear it down in the name of justice and racial equality.--

Language:

English

Contents:

Introduction: People of spirit -- Visionaries -- The bottom rail -- The noble spirit -- A little colony of Mississippians -- Broken promises -- Those who stayed -- Reliance -- Community children -- Salvation -- A rising -- Crying in the wilderness -- When the movement came -- Conclusion: Changes.

Subject Term:

African Americans -- Segregation -- Mississippi -- Hattiesburg -- History.

White people -- Mississippi -- Hattiesburg -- Attitudes.

African Americans -- Mississippi -- Hattiesburg -- Public opinion.

Civil rights movements -- Mississippi -- Hattiesburg -- History -- Personal narratives.

African Americans -- Public opinion. (OCoLC)fst00799665

African Americans -- Segregation. (OCoLC)fst00799695

Civil rights movements. (OCoLC)fst00862708

Race relations. (OCoLC)fst01086509

Whites -- Attitudes. (OCoLC)fst01174817

Geographic Term:

Hattiesburg (Miss.) -- Race relations -- History.