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BL
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1011445
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b765815
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| Main Entry
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Hudson, Winson,1916-
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| Title & Author
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Mississippi Harmony : : memoirs of a freedom fighter /\ Winson Hudson and Constance Curry.
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| Edition Statement
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1st ed.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Palgrave Macmillan,, 2002.
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xxvi, 150 pages :: illustrations ;; 22 cm
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| ISBN
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0312295537
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: 9780312295530
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| Notes
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Includes index.
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| Contents
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"The best of times ... the worst of times": youth -- "It said what it meant and meant what it said": voter registration -- "I'm ready to go": school desegregation -- Freedom summer and "good things": civil rights movement, 1960-1970 -- "Fighting is an everyday thing": the continuing crusade for civil rights -- "The cost to be free": reflections on a life of activism.
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| Abstract
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In 1963, Winson Hudson finally registered to vote in Leake Co. Mississippi, when she interpreted part of the state constitution by saying, "It meant what it said and it said what it meant." Her first attempt had been in 1937. A lifelong native of the rural, all-Black community of Harmony, Winson has lived through some of the most racially oppressive periods in her state's history, and has devoted her life to combating discrimination ...
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Hudson, Winson,1916-
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Hudson, Winson,1916-
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African American women civil rights workers-- Mississippi, Biography.
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African Americans-- Civil rights-- Mississippi-- History-- 20th century.
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African Americans-- Segregation-- Mississippi-- History-- 20th century.
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Civil rights movements-- Mississippi-- History-- 20th century.
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Civil rights workers-- Mississippi, Biography.
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School integration-- Mississippi-- Leake County-- History-- 20th century.
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African American women civil rights workers.
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African Americans-- Civil rights.
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African Americans-- Segregation.
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Civil rights movements.
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Civil rights workers.
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Race relations.
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School integration.
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Leake County (Miss.), Biography.
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Leake County (Miss.), Race relations.
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Mississippi, Race relations.
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Mississippi, Leake County.
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Mississippi.
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| Dewey Classification
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323.1/1960730762653/092B
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| LC Classification
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F350.N4H83 2002
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PS2966.L3
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323.173
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MG 70968rvk
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| Added Entry
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Curry, Constance,1933-
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