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

Christopher Myers Asch

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The story of two larger-than-life personalities from one humble corner of the Missippi Delta: the senator, James O. Eastland, a fabulously wealthy cotton planter and the sharecropper, Fannie Lou Hamer, who grew up desperately poor a few miles from Eastland's plantation. Asch charts the epic struggle for black equality in the 20th century by telling the story of the two deeply intertwined life histories of the staunch segregationist senator and his sharecropper nemesis.

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Book information

ISBN:	9781595583321
Publisher:	The New Press
Imprint:	The New Press
Pub date:	12 Jun 2008
DEWEY:	305.80097624709045
DEWEY edition:	22
Language:	English
Number of pages:	368
Weight:	694g
Height:	234mm
Width:	157mm
Spine width:	30mm