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Oral History Review 2008 35(1):93-95; doi:10.1093/ohr/ohn020
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Let the People Decide: Black Freedom and White Resistance Movements in Sunflower County, Mississippi, 1945–1986

Monte Piliawsky

Wayne State University

LET THE PEOPLE DECIDE: BLACK FREEDOM AND WHITE RESISTANCE MOVEMENTS IN SUNFLOWER COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI, 1945–1986. By J. Todd Moye. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. 1281 pp. Hardbound, $55.00; Softbound, $19.95.

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Place and time are paramount considerations in conducting oral histories. As indicated by the place and time subtitle of J. Todd Moye's outstanding book, Let the People Decide: Sunflower County, Mississippi, l945–1986, the author microscopically examines the modern American civil rights movement in a single, rural Delta county over an extended duration of the four decades following the Second World War. In pushing the conventional periodization of the civil rights movement to the mid-1980s, Moye perceptively analyzes a crucial, but previously neglected finding, "the class differences that developed in African American communities over time [which] profoundly . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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