A Stone of Hope: Rising Above Slavery, Jim Crow, and Poverty in Glendora, Mississippi
- ISBN-10
- 1543457088
- ISBN-13
- 9781543457087
- Series
- A Stone of Hope
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 192
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2017-11-06
- Publisher
- Xlibris Corporation
- Authors
- Johnny B. Thomas, Thomas J. Durant Jr.
Description
Glendora is a small rural town located in the heart of the Mississippi Delta. Th e people of the town take pride in living in a quiet, close-knit community where everybody knows their neighbors. However, like many small rural towns in the South, Glendora inherited the eff ects of slavery, Jim Crow, and poverty, in addition to having the unfortunate experience of being the town where a fourteen-year-boy named Emmett Till was brutally murdered and thrown into the Black Bayou that energized the Civil Rights Movement in America. Th is book tells a story about the struggle of this small town to rise above a mountain of despair that plagued the town for decades to a stone of hope that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. mentioned in his famous I Have A Dream speech in Washington, DC, in August 1963. For the past four decades, Glendoras hope for a brighter future has rested in the hands of Johnny B. Th omas, who rose from the son of sharecroppers on a local plantation to the mayor of the town. When Th omas became mayor, he inherited a town that had been ravaged by the eff ects of poverty, neglect, isolation, a heritage of plantation sharecropping servitude, and a culture of racial suppression of the civil rights of African Americans. Th is book provides a historical account of the struggles and challenges that Mayor Th omas faced in building the Emmett Till Museum to promote education about civil rights, and to promote cultural tourism to generate much needed revenue for community development in Glendora. Th is book also includes much information about the rich history and culture of the people of Glendora as they continue their journey to become one of the stones of hope in the Mississippi Delta.
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Other editions
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- 2009-12-07
- 360 pages
- Ebook
- Univ of North Carolina Press
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- 2005-08-01
- 344 pages
- Paperback
- Univ of North Carolina Press
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