Packed with statistics and quotes from historians, politicians and other observers, Walter's heavily footnoted text may prove somewhat slow going for the general reader, but she has uncovered much eye-opening material. She then focuses on a number of groups-chief among them the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party-that worked to end the violence and overturn the state's racist voting practices. After the Civil War, former slaveholders' rise to power in Congress ``created a new kind of bondage for African-American citizens.'' Walter describes the bleak era of Reconstruction and the shocking, widespread mob lynchings that occurred during the first half of this century. We guarantee the condition of every book as its described on the. The author notes that the influx of white cotton farmers into the state in the early 19th century led to the enslavement of four million African Americans by 1860. Mildred Pitts Walter is one of those rare authors who have mastered both fiction and. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice.Walter ( Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World Trouble's Child ) here painstakingly documents the courageous struggle of African Americans in Mississippi to overcome pervasive racism and to win their economic and political rights. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Mildred Pitts Walter, Catherine Stock (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator) 3.78 avg rating 306 ratings published 1986 22 editions. Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Average rating 3.73 669 ratings 134 reviews shelved 2,106 times. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. After a misunderstanding with a white teacher, black honor student Emma is. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. Read reviews from world’s largest community for readers.

Because We Are by Mildred Pitts Walter