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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Morrison, Minion K. C. (1946-....)
Titre(s) : Aaron Henry of Mississippi [Texte imprimé] : inside agitator / Minion K.C. Morrison
Publication : Fayetteville (Ark.) : The University of Arkansas Press, 2015
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XXI-363 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 323-343. Index
"When Aaron Henry returned home to Mississippi from World War II service in 1946,
he was part of wave of black servicemen who challenged the racial status quo. He became
a pharmacist through the GI Bill, and as a prominent citizen, he organized a hometown
chapter of the NAACP and relatively quickly became leader of the state chapter. From
that launching pad he joined and helped lead an ensemble of activists who fundamentally
challenged the system of segregation and the almost total exclusion of African Americans
from the political structure. These efforts were most clearly evident in his leadership
of the integrated Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party delegation, which, after an
unsuccessful effort to unseat the lily-white Democratic delegation at the Democratic
National Convention in 1964, won recognition from the national party in 1968. The
man who the New York Times described as being "at the forefront of every significant
boycott, sit-in, protest march, rally, voter registration drive and court case" eventually
became a rare example of a social-movement leader who successfully moved into political
office. Aaron Henry of Mississippi covers the life of this remarkable leader, from
his humble beginnings in a sharecropping family to his election to the Mississippi
house of representatives in 1979, all the while maintaining the social-change ideology
that prompted him to improve his native state, and thereby the nation."--Publisher's
description
Sujet(s) : Henry, Aaron (1922-1997)
Mouvements des droits civiques -- États-Unis -- 1945-1990
Noirs américains -- Droits -- Mississippi (États-Unis) -- 1945-1990
Genre ou forme : Biographie
Indice(s) Dewey :
323.097 3 (23e éd.) = Droits civils et politiques - États-Unis
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781557287595 (rel.). - ISBN 1557287597 (erroné). - ISBN 9781610755641 (erroné).
- ISBN 1610755642 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb46897951m
Notice n° :
FRBNF46897951
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Preface ; Introduction ; Son of sharecroppers and entrepreneurs : rites of passage
in a segregated society ; Military service, family, and profession : challenging
contested citizenship at war and at home ; Aaron Henry, the NAACP, and indigenous
leadership : the Clarksdale social movement ; Demanding restoration of the black
franchise : Henry heads the Freedom Vote ticket, a 1963 mock election ; An alternative
to the segregated state Democratic Party : the MFDP goes to Atlantic City, 1964 ;
Henry the public entrepreneur and network tactician : exploiting national allies and
cultivating local interracial partners ; Private and public entrepreneurship for
redistributive justice : addressing African American socioeconomic disparities ;
Taking the reins of the state Democratic Party : Henry wrests power from the segregationists
; The summit and culmination : Henry as a state legislator and his political demise
; Conclusion and postscript.
