Greater Freedom The Evolution of the Civil

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.

Charles W. McKinney, Jr., is an assistant professor of history at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee.

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Map of Wilson County	p. xiv
Introduction	p. xv
Abbreviations	p. xxv
Building Freedom from the Ground Up	p. 1
The Idea of Citizenship Was Never Greater: Organizing the Foundations of a Movement	p. 33
"A Little Too Much for a Self-Respecting White Man to Swallow": Brown and Its Aftermath	p. 71
We Began to Question Where We Never Questioned Before: The Struggle to Build a Movement	p. 124
Somewhere Down the Line We Decided to Organize: Integration, Housing and the Ascendancy of "Lower Income Negro Citizens"	p. 172
Conclusion: Race, Class, Memory, and the Pursuit of Greater Freedom	p. 215
Selected Bibliography	p. 229
Index	p. 251
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Greater Freedom The Evolution of the Civil Rights Struggle in Wilson, North Carolina

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