The Senator and the Sharecropper
The Freedom Struggles of James O. Eastland and Fannie Lou Hamer
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19883376 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Chris Myers Asch (corresponding author), Christopher Myers Asch |
| Year | 2011 |
| Pages | 368 |
| Publication date | 2011-02-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | The senator and the sharecropper (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | University of North Carolina Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.5149/9780807878057_asch |
| OpenAlex | W2586318554 |
| ISBN | 9780807878057 |
| Open Library | OL25562257M |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
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 plantation, rose to become the spiritual leader of the Mississippi freedom struggle. The author uses Hamer's and Eastland's entwined histories, set against the backdrop of Sunflower County's rise and fall as a center of cotton agriculture, to explore the county's changing social landscape during the mid-twentieth century and its persistence today as a land separate and unequal. The author, who spent nearly a decade in Mississippi as an educator, looks at the South's troubled ties to the cotton industry, the long struggle for civil rights, and unrelenting social and economic injustice through the eyes of two of the era's most important and intriguing figures
Civil rights · Economic history · Injustice · Political science · Politics · Sociology · White (mutation) · Cuban History and Society · History · Law · Political Economy and Marxism · Race, History, and American Society · 20th century · African American civil rights workers · African americans · Anthropology · biography · Biography & Autobiography · Children of sharecroppers · Civil rights movements · Cultural · Discrimination & Race Relations · Fannie Lou Hamer · fannie lou Hamer (1918-1977) · James O. Eastland (1904-1986) · Legislators · Minority Studies · mississippi · race relations · Racism · Social conditions · Social Science · Social Scientists & Psychologists · Sunflower County · united states · United States. Congress. Senate
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2014 - 2024 (11) |
| Highly cited | No |