The Senator and the Sharecropper: The Freedom Struggles of James O. Eastland and Fannie Lou Hamer
What happens when political freedom advances faster than the economic and institutional structures surrounding it?
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Using The Senator and the Sharecropper: The Freedom Struggles of James O. Eastland and Fannie Lou Hamer by Chris Myers Asch as our lens, this investigation examines how Sunflower County, Mississippi, changed dramatically during the twentieth century while preserving striking patterns of racial separation and economic inequality.
Through the contrasting lives of segregationist senator and planter…
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