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In this fascinating study of race, politics, and economics in Mississippi, Chris Myers Asch tells the story of two extraordinary personalities--Fannie Lou Hamer and James O. Eastland--who represented deeply opposed sides of the civil rights movement. Both were from Sunflower County: Eastland was a wealthy white planter and one of the most powerful segregationists in the U.S. Senate, while Hamer, a sharecropper who grew up desperately poor just a few miles from the Eastland plantation, rose to become the spiritual leader of the Mississippi freedom struggle. Asch uses Hamer's and Eastland's entw

Children of sharecroppers --- African American civil rights workers --- Civil rights movements --- African Americans --- Racism --- Bias, Racial --- Race bias --- Race prejudice --- Racial bias --- Prejudices --- Anti-racism --- Critical race theory --- Race relations --- Sharecroppers' children --- Sharecroppers --- Afro-American civil rights workers --- Civil rights workers, African American --- Civil rights workers --- Civil liberation movements --- Liberation movements (Civil rights) --- Protest movements (Civil rights) --- Human rights movements --- Afro-Americans --- Black Americans --- Colored people (United States) --- Negroes --- Africans --- Ethnology --- Blacks --- History --- Civil rights --- Eastland, James O. --- Hamer, Fannie Lou. --- United States. --- Mei-kuo tsʻan i yüan --- Sunflower County (Miss.) --- Black people