Product Overview
From Follett
Includes bibliographical references (page 299-353) and index. Examines the economic and racial divide in Sunflower County, Mississippi, through the lives of Senator James O. Eastland, a wealthy white cotton planter and powerful segregationist in the mid-twentieth century, and Fannie Lou Hamer, a poor sharecropper and activist who grew up just a few miles from the Eastland plantation.
From the Publisher
The story of two larger-than-life personalities from one humble corner of the Missippi Delta: the senator, James O. Eastland, a fabulously wealthy cotton planter and the sharecropper, Fannie Lou Hamer, who grew up desperately poor a few miles from Eastland's plantation. Asch charts the epic struggle for black equality in the 20th century by telling the story of the two deeply intertwined life histories of the staunch segregationist senator and his sharecropper nemesis.