Choctaw Resurgence in Mississippi: Race, Class, and Nation Building in the Jim Crow South, 1830-1977

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Choctaw Resurgence in Mississippi Indians of the Southeast series editors Michael D. Green University of North Carolina Theda Perdue University of North Carolina advisory editors Leland Ferguson University of South Carolina Mary Young University of Rochester Choctaw Resurgence in Mississippi Race, Class, and Nation Building in the Jim Crow South, – katherine m. b. osburn University of Nebraska Press Lincoln & London © 2014 by the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska Acknowledgments for the use of copyrighted material appear on pages xi–xiv, which constitute an extension of the copyright page. Publication of this volume was assisted by the Virginia Faulkner Fund, established in memory of Virginia Faulkner, editor in chief of the University of Nebraska Press. All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Osburn, Katherine M. B. Choctaw resurgence in Mississippi : race, class, and nation building in the Jim Crow South, 1830–1977 / Katherine M. B. Osburn. pages cm — (Indians of the Southeast) Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 978-0-8032-4044-5 (cloth: alk. paper) isbn 978-0-8032-7387-0 (pbk: alk. paper) isbn 978-0-8032-7389-4 (ePub) isbn 978-0-8032-7390-0 (mobi) isbn 978-0-8032-7388-7 (pdf) 1. Choctaw Indians—Mississippi—History. 2. Choctaw Indians— Mississippi—Goverment relations. 3. Choctaw Indians—Civil rights—Mississippi. 4. Self-determination, National—Mississippi. 5. Mississippi—Race relations. 6. Mississippi—Politics and government . 7. Mississippi—Social conditions. I. Title. e99.C8O74 2014 976.004'97387—dc23 2013049977 Set in Adobe Garamond by L. Auten. To Charlie, love of my life since 1973 Grow old along with me, The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made. —Robert Browning, “Rabbi Ben Ezra” ...