Christopher Myers Asch
Biographic Data
| ID | 9319769 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher Myers Asch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher Myers |
| FAMILY NAME | Asch |
| SIGNATURE | ASCH C M |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 1 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 1 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Senator and the Sharecropper
This study of race, politics, and economics in Mississippi tells the story of two extraordinary personalities—Fannie Lou Hamer and James O. Eastland—who represented deeply opposed sides of the civil rights movement. Both were from Sunflower County: Eastland was a wealthy white planter and one of the most powerful segregationists in the U.S. Senate, while Hamer, a sharecropper who grew up desperately poor just a few miles from the Eastland plantat…
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The Senator and the Sharecropper
This study of race, politics, and economics in Mississippi tells the story of two extraordinary personalities—Fannie Lou Hamer and James O. Eastland—who represented deeply opposed sides of the civil rights movement. Both were from Sunflower County: Eastland was a wealthy white planter and one of the most powerful segregationists in the U.S. Senate, while Hamer, a sharecropper who grew up desperately poor just a few miles from the Eastland plantat…
20th century (1 work) · African American civil rights workers (1 work) · African americans (1 work) · Anthropology (1 work) · biography (1 work) · Biography & Autobiography (1 work) · Children of sharecroppers (1 work) · Civil rights (1 work) · Civil rights (1 work) · Civil rights movements (1 work)