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The Heritage of Hub City: The Struggle for Opportunity in the New South, 1865-1964

Sturkey, William Mychael
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1343155676

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2012, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, History.
“The Heritage of Hub City: The Struggle for Opportunity in the New South, 1865-1964” documents the deep-rooted origins of the Civil Rights Movement in the American South through the lens of a long local social history of Hattiesburg, Mississippi. This dissertation opens with a description of the first day of the 1964 Hattiesburg Freedom Schools and the retraces their development within the context of the changing status of race in the modern American and the to more fully illuminate the characteristics of black life during the Jim Crow era and explore the ways that early African American community organizing laid the foundation of the Civil Rights explosion in the 1960s.
Hasan Jeffries, Dr. (Advisor)
Kevin Boyle, Dr. (Committee Member)
Kenneth Goings, Dr. (Committee Member)
416 p.
African American Studies; African Americans; American History

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  • Sturkey, W. M. (2012). The Heritage of Hub City: The Struggle for Opportunity in the New South, 1865-1964 [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1343155676

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Sturkey, William. The Heritage of Hub City: The Struggle for Opportunity in the New South, 1865-1964. 2012. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1343155676.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Sturkey, William. "The Heritage of Hub City: The Struggle for Opportunity in the New South, 1865-1964." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1343155676

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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