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Author Sturkey, William, author.

Title Hattiesburg : an American city in black and white / William Sturkey.

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

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Location Call No. Status
 Middletown, Russell Library - NEW Adult Nonfiction  973.8 STU    Missing
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  305.8 STURKEY    Check Shelf
 Rocky Hill, Cora J. Belden Library - Adult Department  305.8 STURKEY    Check Shelf
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.-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 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.
Hattiesburg (Miss.) -- Race relations -- History.
African Americans -- Public opinion. (OCoLC)fst00799665
African Americans -- Segregation. (OCoLC)fst00799695
Civil rights movements. (OCoLC)fst00862708
Race relations. (OCoLC)fst01086509
White people -- Attitudes. (OCoLC)fst01174817
Mississippi -- Hattiesburg. (OCoLC)fst01208381
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Personal narratives. (OCoLC)fst01423843
Standard No. 40028928712
ISBN 9780674976351 (hardcover) (alkaline paper)
0674976355 (hardcover) (alkaline paper)
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