In this Book
- Choctaw Resurgence in Mississippi: Race, Class, and Nation Building in the Jim Crow South, 1830-1977
- Book
- 2014
- Published by: University of Nebraska Press
- Series: Indians of the Southeast
Despite overwhelming poverty and significant racial prejudice in the rural South, the Mississippi Choctaws managed, over the course of a century and a half, to maintain their ethnic identity, persuade the Office of Indian Affairs to provide them with services and lands, create a functioning tribal government, and establish a prosperous and stable reservation economy. The Choctaws’ struggle against segregation in the 1950s and 1960s is an overlooked story of the civil rights movement, and this study of white supremacist support for Choctaw tribalism considerably complicates our understanding of southern history. Choctaw Resurgence in Mississippi traces the Choctaw’s remarkable tribal rebirth, attributing it to their sustained political and social activism.
Table of Contents
- List of Illustrations
- p. viii
- Series Preface
- p. ix
- Acknowledgment
- pp. xi-xiv
- Introduction
- pp. 1-8
- 6. The Choctaw Tribal Council, 1945–1965
- pp. 131-158
- List of Abbreviations
- p. 215
- Bibliography
- pp. 287-305
- Series Page
- pp. 323-325