Sunbelt revolution : the historical progression of the civil rights struggle in the Gulf South, 1866-2000 / edited by Samuel C. Hyde, Jr.
Contributor(s): Hyde, Samuel C
Material type: TextPublisher: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2003Description: x, 275 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 081302577X (cloth : alk. paper)Subject(s): African Americans -- Civil rights -- Gulf States -- History | Civil rights movements -- Gulf States -- History | Gulf States -- Race relationsDDC classification: 323/.0976/09034 LOC classification: E185.92 | .S87 2003Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.Item type | Current library | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | John Bulow Campbell Library | 1 West | E185.92 .S87 2003 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 0182903014997 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: the challenges and expectations of social change in the Gulf South, 1866-2000 / Samuel C. Hyde Jr. -- Regional initiatives, national implications -- "Damned sons of bitches": the first demonstrations for Black civil rights in the Gulf South / James G. Hollandsworth -- Rodolphe Lucien Desdunes: forgotten organizer of the Plessy protest / Joseph Logsdon with Lawrence Powell -- Black, brown, and white: confronting and accommodating Jim Crow -- Accommodating activism: Dexter Avenue Baptist Church and Robert Chapman Judkins, workers that needeth not be ashamed, 1883-1920 / Houston B. Roberson -- Working for American rights: Black, white, and Mexican American dockworkers in Texas during the Great Depression / Rebecca Montes -- A history of Florida's white primary / Gary R. Mormino -- Forward toward an elusive goal -- One brick at a time: the Montgomery bus boycott, nonviolent direct action, and the development of a national civil rights movement / Raymond Arsenault -- The Tallahassee bus boycott / Gregory B. Padgett -- Local leadership, the Biloxi beach riot, and the origins of the civil rights movement on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, 1959-1964 / James Patterson Smith -- John McKeithen, integration, and the Louisiana State Police: a work in progress / Roman J. Heleniak.