[This book] brings to life the magnetic characters who clashed on the Memphis battlefield: the resolute black workers, many of whom were bucking white authority for the first time in their lives, as they carried posters reading "I AM A MAN"; strike leaders like the impoverished,…
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"Memphis in 1968 was ruled by a paternalistic "plantation mentality" embodied in its good-old-boy mayor, Henry Loeb. Wretched conditions, abusive white supervisors, poor education, and low wages locked most black workers into poverty. Then two sanitation workers, seeking shelter…
Exploring the mental worlds of the major groups interacting in a borderland setting, Cynthia Cumfer offers a broad, multi-racial intellectual and cultural history of the Tennessee frontier in the Revolutionary and early national periods, leading up to the era of rapid westward e…
