The Senator and the Sharecropper
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The Senator and the Sharecropper

The Freedom Struggles of James O. Eastland and Fannie Lou Hamer

  1. 392 pages
  2. English
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The Senator and the Sharecropper

The Freedom Struggles of James O. Eastland and Fannie Lou Hamer

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. The Senator and the Sharecropper
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Preface
  7. PROLOGUE Sunflower County, 1994
  8. 1 Sunflower County, 1904
  9. 2 Planter's Son, Sharecroppers’ Daughter
  10. 3 “Cotton Is Dynamite”: New Deals in Sunflower County
  11. 4 “An Enormous Tragedy in the Making”: Revolutions in Sunflower County and Abroad
  12. 5 “From Cotton—to Communism—to Segregation!”: The Senator's Rise to Power
  13. 6 “No One Can Honestly Say Negroes Are Satisfied”: The Sharecropper Embraces the Movement
  14. 7 1964: Confrontations
  15. 8 “This Is America's Sickness”
  16. 9 “The Pendulum Is Swinging Back”
  17. 10 “Right on Back to the Plantation”
  18. Notes
  19. Index