The Senator and the Sharecropper

The Senator and the Sharecropper

Author: Chris Myers Asch

Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

Published: 2011-02-01

Total Pages: 394

ISBN-13: 0807872024

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In this fascinating study of race, politics, and economics in Mississippi, Chris Myers Asch 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


The Senator and the Sharecropper

The Senator and the Sharecropper

Author: Chris Myers Asch

Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

Published: 2011-02-01

Total Pages: 393

ISBN-13: 0807878057

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In this fascinating study of race, politics, and economics in Mississippi, Chris Myers Asch 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. Asch 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. Asch, who spent nearly a decade in Mississippi as an educator, offers a fresh look 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.


The Senator and the Sharecropper's Son

The Senator and the Sharecropper's Son

Author: John Downing Weaver

Publisher: Texas A&M University Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9780890967485

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Weaver's narrative explores these tangled lives against the background of "the color line," which W. E. B. Du Bois defined in 1903 as "the problem of the twentieth century."


Congressional Record

Congressional Record

Author: United States. Congress

Publisher:

Published: 1966

Total Pages: 1492

ISBN-13:

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The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)


Chocolate City

Chocolate City

Author: Chris Myers Asch

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2017-10-17

Total Pages: 624

ISBN-13: 1469635879

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Monumental in scope and vividly detailed, Chocolate City tells the tumultuous, four-century story of race and democracy in our nation's capital. Emblematic of the ongoing tensions between America's expansive democratic promises and its enduring racial realities, Washington often has served as a national battleground for contentious issues, including slavery, segregation, civil rights, the drug war, and gentrification. But D.C. is more than just a seat of government, and authors Chris Myers Asch and George Derek Musgrove also highlight the city's rich history of local activism as Washingtonians of all races have struggled to make their voices heard in an undemocratic city where residents lack full political rights. Tracing D.C.'s massive transformations--from a sparsely inhabited plantation society into a diverse metropolis, from a center of the slave trade to the nation's first black-majority city, from "Chocolate City" to "Latte City--Asch and Musgrove offer an engaging narrative peppered with unforgettable characters, a history of deep racial division but also one of hope, resilience, and interracial cooperation.


Sharecropper's Son to Navy Commander

Sharecropper's Son to Navy Commander

Author: Billy F. Odle CDR USN RET

Publisher: Page Publishing Inc

Published: 2024-05-18

Total Pages: 275

ISBN-13:

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I grew up on a farm during the Great Depression and WWII. When I was sixteen, I decided that a sharecropper's life would not be my future. I quit school and joined my siblings in California. On my eighteenth birthday, I joined the Navy and served thirty years.