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A Day I Ain't Never Seen Before: Remembering the Civil Rights Movement in Marks, Mississippi

Name: A Day I Ain't Never Seen Before: Remembering the Civil Rights Movement in Marks, Mississippi
Brand: University of Georgia Press
SKU: 9780820363035
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Contributors:

Joe Bateman, Cheryl Lynn Greenberg, Richard Arvedon (With)

Publisher:

University of Georgia Press

Binding:

Hardcover

Book Category:

Biography & Autobiography, Political Science, History

Book Subcategory:

Social Activists, Civil Rights, African American & Black

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Release Date:

2023-01-15

ISBN 13:

9780820363035

Weight:

1.21 lbs

Size:

9.00 x 6.00 x 0.94 inches

Pages:

310

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The Black people of Marks, Mississippi, and other rural southern towns were the backbone of the civil rights movement, yet their stories have too rarely been celebrated and are, for the most part, forgotten. Part memoir, part oral history, and part historical study, A Day I Ain't Never Seen Before tells the story of the struggle for equality and dignity through the words of these largely unknown men and women and the civil rights workers who joined them. Deeply rooted in documentary and archival sources, this book also offers extensive suggestions for further readings on both Marks and the civil rights movement.

Set carefully within its broader historical context, the narrative begins with the founding of the town and the oppressive conditions under which Black people lived and traces their persistent efforts to win the rights and justice they deserved. In their own words, Marks residents describe their lives before, during, and after the activist years of the civil rights movement, bolstered by the voices of those like Joe Bateman who arrived in the mid-1960s to help. Voter registration projects, white violence, sit-ins, arrests, school desegregation cases, community-organizing meetings, protest marches, Freedom Schools, door-to-door organizing--all of these played out in Marks.

The broader civil rights movement intersects many of these local efforts, from Freedom Summer to the War on Poverty, from the death of a Marks man on the March against Fear (Martin Luther King Jr. preached at his funeral) to the Poor People's Movement, whose Mule Train began in Marks. At each point Bateman and local activists detail how they understood what they were doing and how each protest action played out. The final chapters examine Marks in the aftermath of the movement, with residents reflecting on the changes (or lack thereof ) they have seen. Here are triumphs and beatings, courage and infighting, surveillance and--sometimes-- lasting progress, in the words of those who lived it.

About the Author
Cheryl Lynn Greenberg (Author)
CHERYL LYNN GREENBERG is the Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of History at Trinity College. She is the author of several books, including "Or Does It Explode?" Black Harlem in the Great Depression. She teaches, writes, and lives in Connecticut.

Joe Bateman (Author)
JOE BATEMAN is a veteran of the civil rights movement who served as a member of the Council of Federated Organizations and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (1964-66). A native of Oklahoma, Bateman now calls New Mexico home.

A Day I Ain't Never Seen Before: Remembering the Civil Rights Movement in Marks, Mississippi

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