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Voices from the Mississippi Hill Country

The Benton County Civil Rights Movement

By: Roy DeBerry,Aviva Futorian,Stephen Klein,John Lyons

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Voices from the Mississippi Hill Country

The Benton County Civil Rights Movement

By: Roy DeBerry,Aviva Futorian,Stephen Klein,John Lyons

Voices from the Mississippi Hill Country is a collection of interviews with residents of Benton County, Mississippi—an area with a long and fascinating civil rights history. The product of more than twenty-five years of work by the Hill Country Project, this volume examines a revolutionary period in American history through the voices of farmers, teachers, sharecroppers, and students. No other rural farming county in the American South has yet been afforded such a deep dive into its civil rights experiences and their legacies. These accumulated stories truly capture life before, during, and after the movement. The authors’ approach places the region’s history in context and reveals everyday struggles. African American residents of Benton County had been organizing since the 1930s. Citizens formed a local chapter of the NAACP in the 1940s and ’50s. One of the first Mississippi counties to get a federal registrar under the 1965 Voting Rights Act, Benton achieved the highest per capita total of African American registered voters in Mississippi. Locals produced a regular, clandestinely distributed newsletter, the Benton County Freedom Train. In addition to documenting this previously unrecorded history, personal narratives capture pivotal moments of individual lives and lend insight into the human cost and the long-term effects of social movements. Benton County residents explain the events that shaped their lives and ultimately, in their own humble way, helped shape the trajectory of America. Through these first-person stories and with dozens of captivating photos covering more than a century’s worth of history, the volume presents a vivid picture of a people and a region still striving for the prize of equality and justice.

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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1496828852

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Voices from the Mississippi Hill Country

The Benton County Civil Rights Movement

By: Roy DeBerry,Aviva Futorian,Stephen Klein,John Lyons

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The Benton County Civil Rights Movement

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Faith in Politics

Southern Political Battles Past and Present

By: Roy Herron

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Faith in Politics

Southern Political Battles Past and Present

By: Roy Herron

Roy Herron graduated with highest honors from the University of Tennessee at Martin, then studied New Testament and Ethics in Scotland before earning Divinity and Law degrees from Vanderbilt University. But he came home to West Tennessee and served the Volunteer State in both the Tennessee House and Senate. For four decades, Herron served as a legislator, attorney, teacher, and Methodist minister. In that work, he published op-ed essays and articles in Tennessee’s leading newspapers and publications from The Japan Times to The Wall Street Journal on various topics including constitutional liberties, economic justice, health care, politics, and more. This informative volume collects the most powerful of these writings, adding helpful updates and contemporary insights. With an engaging, conversational style, Herron addresses voter ID laws, drunk-driving statutes, women’s rights and many recurring, contemporary issues. Whether describing the challenges facing his elderly mother as she attempted to exercise her right to vote, or the struggles of working women and men facing illnesses without health insurance, Herron demonstrates an earnestness and thoughtfulness all too rare in politics. These nearly fifty essays and articles provide evidence that Herron’s Democratic Party and Christianity are not mutually exclusive. Indeed, Herron describes how faith brought him to politics and to fighting for justice, jobs, and constitutional freedoms for all citizens. Faith at Work is a veritable guidebook on how faith and spirituality should affect decision making and advocacy in public life. ROY HERRON was a Tennessee State Representative from 1987 to 1997 and State Senator from 1997 to 2013. He wrote Things Held Dear: Soul Stories for My Sons and God and Politics: How Can a Christian Be in Politics? He coauthored, with Cotton Ivy, Tennessee Political Humor: Some of These Jokes You Voted For. He lawyers and writes in West Tennessee and Nashville.

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208

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Univ. of Tennessee Press

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1621905969

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9781621905967

Technology and Consumption

Understanding Consumer Choices and Behaviors

By: Ruby Roy Dholakia

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Technology and Consumption

Understanding Consumer Choices and Behaviors

By: Ruby Roy Dholakia

Technology and Household Consumption is a comprehensive text that provides insights into technology’s impact on consumer behavior and the household environment. Consumption and consumer behavior has become a very important subject of study that is now covered in many disciplines including family economics, culture studies, and feminist/women studies. In the first section, this book provides a historical perspective on how consumer behaviors have changed because of technology and how technology itself has changed. Data on ownership and expenditures is detailed in describing the penetration of technology in the household and changes over time. In the examination of demographics and social changes, an emphasis is placed on women and children. As it is important to understand the entry paths and factors that influence them, the book also introduces a research framework to understanding the adoption and utilization of household technologies. In the second section, the book examines specific household technologies and consumption experiences including shopping choices and behaviors, entertainment outlets and availability, communications technologies, and working at home. The book concludes with a section on the relationships between marketers and consumers.

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222

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1461421586

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9781461421580

Third Parties in America

Citizen Response to Major Party Failure - Updated and Expanded Second Edition

By: Steven J. Rosenstone,Roy L. Behr,Edward H. Lazarus

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Third Parties in America

Citizen Response to Major Party Failure - Updated and Expanded Second Edition

By: Steven J. Rosenstone,Roy L. Behr,Edward H. Lazarus

In recent years a growing number of citizens have defected from the major parties to third party presidential candidates. Over the past three decades, independent campaigns led by George Wallace, John Anderson, and Ross Perot have attracted more electoral support than at any time since the 1920s. Third Parties in America explains why and when the two-party system deteriorates and third parties flourish. Relying on data from presidential elections between 1840 and 1992, it identifies the situations in which Americans abandon the major parties and shows how third parties encourage major party responsiveness and broader representation of political interests.

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Princeton University Press

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0691190526

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9780691190525

The Life and Wars of Gideon J. Pillow

By: Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes,Roy P. Stonesifer

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The Life and Wars of Gideon J. Pillow

By: Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes,Roy P. Stonesifer

Commonly portrayed in Civil War literature as a bungling general who disgraced himself at Fort Donelson, Gideon Johnson Pillow (1806-78) is one of the most controversial military figures of nineteenth-century America. In this first full-length biography,

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807821071

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9780807821077

Roy Rogers

King of the Cowboys

By: Roy Rogers,Georgia Morris,Mark Pollard

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Roy Rogers

King of the Cowboys

By: Roy Rogers,Georgia Morris,Mark Pollard

Two hundred photographs, many in full color, highlight an account of the life and career of the greatest of Hollywood's singing cowboys, told in Roy Rogers's own words, including stories of Dale Evans and his horse, Trigger. 15,000 first printing.

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143

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Collins Pub San Francisco

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0002553341

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9780002553346

FDR's Utopian

Arthur Morgan of the TVA

By: Roy Talbert Jr.

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FDR's Utopian

Arthur Morgan of the TVA

By: Roy Talbert Jr.

The first book to explore the career of FDR's Utopian

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1604735422

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Voices from the Mississippi Hill Country

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