Greater Freedom: The Evolution of the Civil Rights Struggle in Wilson, North Carolina

Charles W. McKinney, Jr.

Greater Freedom: The Evolution of the Civil Rights Struggle in Wilson, North Carolina
Format
Paperback
Publisher
University Press of America
Country
United States
Published
23 November 2010
Pages
314
ISBN
9780761852308

Greater Freedom: The Evolution of the Civil Rights Struggle in Wilson, North Carolina

Charles W. McKinney, Jr.

Greater Freedom offers a groundbreaking long-term community study of Wilson County, North Carolina. Charting the evolution of Wilson’s civil rights movement, Charles McKinney argues that African Americans in Wilson created an expansive notion of freedom that influenced every aspect of life in the region and directly confronted the state’s reputation for moderation. Through exhaustive research and a compelling narrative, McKinney chronicles the approaches and perspectives that blacks in this eastern North Carolina county utilized to confront white supremacy. In the face of violence, intimidation, and marginalization, voting rights activists, educational reformers, the collaboration of union members, students, and working class black women activists in Wilson built a grassroots movement that helped shape the course of the national civil rights movement in America.

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