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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté. Image fixe : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Martin, Gordon A.
Titre(s) : Count them one by one [Texte imprimé] : Black Mississippians fighting for the right to vote / Gordon A. Martin, Jr.
Publication : Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, cop. 2010
Description matérielle : xii, 272 p., [14] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm
Collection : Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies
Lien à la collection : Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies
Comprend : Race-haunted Mississippi ; A civil rights division in justice ; Civil rights and
the 1960 campaign ; Theron Lynd and the end of an era ; Preparing for trial ; The
new judge in the Southern District of Mississippi ; The first witness, Jesse Stegall
; For the defendants Dugas Shands and M. M. Roberts ; The Burgers of Hattiesburg
; The other young Turks David Roberson and Chuck Lewis ; Eloise Hopson "I'd like
to see them make me change anything I want to say" ; Hercules and its inside agitator,
Huck Dunagin ; Huck's men the black workers at Hercules ; B.F. Bourn, storekeeper
and freedom fighter ; The reverends James C. Chandler and Wayne Kelly Pittman ;
The Reverend Wendell Phillips Taylor ; The leader, Vernon Dahmer ; The white witnesses
and the women who registered them ; "Negro or white didn't have a thing in the world
to do with it" Theron Lynd takes the stand ; Ike's Fifth Circuit getting on with
the job at hand ; After the trial ; Mississippi today.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (p. 260-264) and index
"Count Them One by One" is a comprehensive account of the groundbreaking case written
by one of the Justice Department's trial attorneys. Gordon A. Martin, Jr., then a
newly minted lawyer, traveled to Hattiesburg from Washington to help shape the federal
case against Lynd. He met with and prepared the government's sixteen courageous black
witnesses who had been refused registration, found white witnesses, and was one of
the lawyers during the trial. Decades later, Martin returned to Mississippi to find
these men and women whom he had never forgotten. He interviewed the still-living witnesses,
their children, and friends. Martin intertwines these current reflections with vivid
commentary about the case itself. The result is an impassioned, cogent fusion of reportage,
oral history, and memoir about a trial that fundamentally reshaped the South"--Cover,
p. 2
Sujet(s) : Noirs américains -- Droit de vote -- Mississippi (États-Unis) -- 1945-1970
Suffrage -- Mississippi (États-Unis) -- 1945-1970
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781604737899 (cloth) (alk. paper). - ISBN 1604737891 (cloth) (alk. paper). -
ISBN 9781604737905 (ebook). - ISBN 1604737905 (ebook)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb42495124s
Notice n° :
FRBNF42495124
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
