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Racial Democracy
Struggles for racial democracy in Sunflower County in the 1980 substantially differed in many aspects from freedom struggles that were there in the 1950's and 1960's. Civil rights movements in the 1980 were not a monolithic entity. Tensions that were witnessed at the national level were not prominent at the local level. The civil rights movements' activities in the sunflower county illuminated problems unique to one area. Sunflower County was inhabited by isolated, dependent, unskilled, unneeded, and unwanted people a clear indication that the black freedom movement involved issues of class as well as those of race. Struggle for racial democracy in the Sunflower County in 1980 was the struggle to liberate the less privileged that made up about 70% of Sunflower County (Moye, 2004).
Unlike the 1960's Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), that targeted Sunflower County as a civil rights activism because of Eastland's political prominence, the struggle for racial democracy in Sunflower County in 1980 was a struggle to liberate the isolated, dependent, unskilled, unneeded, and unwanted people (Moye, 2004). It was a racial/class struggle. The SNCC activists of the 1960s had intended to bring the public attention to deplorable living conditions in which the residents of Senator Eastland's backyard lived.
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James O. Eastland's name is synonymous with the struggle in mid-1950s. He travelled far and wide denouncing public school desegregation decision that was handed down by the Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education. His denunciation was laced with lots of rhetoric that was mean to address and arouse the people. In a Senate session he was quoted saying "The Question is asked, will the South obey this decision? Who is obligated morally or legally to obey the decision whose authorities rest not upon the law but upon the writings and teaching of procommunist agitators who are part and parcel of communist conspiracy to destroy our country?" (Moye, 2004). He replied to his question when speaking before Citizens' Council and other segregationist groups averring that the southerners would not be violating the constitution or the law when they defy the outcome of Brown v. Board of Education. Instead they would be defying those who would be trying to destroy the United States form of government. He retorted that the citizens are not required to any court which passes out such a discriminatory ruling. He averred that the citizens are obliged to disobey such rulings. The brand of politics of the activists of the 1950s just like…
References List
Moye, J.D. (2004). Let the People Decide: Black Freedom and White Resistance Movements in Sunflower County, Mississippi, 1945-1985. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina
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Oates, S.B. (1994). Let the Trumpet Sound: A Life of Martin Luther King, Jr. New York: Harper
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