{"product_id":"hattiesburg-9780674976351","title":"Hattiesburg","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this rich multigenerational saga of race and family in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, William Sturkey reveals the personal stories behind the men and women who struggled to uphold their southern “way of life” against the threat of desegregation, and those who fought to tear it down in the name of justice and racial equality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIlluminating… Sturkey’s clear-eyed and meticulous book pulls off a delicate balancing act. While depicting the terrors of Jim Crow, he also shows how Hattiesburg’s black residents, forced to forge their own communal institutions, laid the organizational groundwork for the civil rights movement of the ’50s and ’60s. * New York Times *\u003cbr\u003eHattiesburg is where racial democracy meets white supremacy, where technology meets nature, where old slavery money meets the indebted sharecropper, where imagination meets the unimaginable, where the ballot meets the bullet. Sturkey’s magnificent portrait reminds us that Mississippi is no anachronism. It is the dark heart of American modernity. -- Robin D. G. Kelley, author of \u003ci\u003eThelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHattiesburg, Mississippi, was the quintessential New South city, built on the promise of quick cash and persistent oppression. In this brilliantly braided history, William Sturkey shows how African Americans made it into a place of opportunity, community, resilience, and rebellion. \u003ci\u003eHattiesburg\u003c\/i\u003e is an insightful, powerful, and moving book. -- Kevin Boyle, author of \u003ci\u003eArc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSturkey’s beautifully written portrait of Hattiesburg, Mississippi—from its founding after the Civil War through the emergence of the modern civil rights movement—offers a fresh history of Jim Crow’s development and decline, unlike any other I have read. Sturkey features people with agency, acting to shape their lives and improve their community, while showing how these individuals were acting within the context of broad economic trends related to war, depression, migration, and more. A wonderfully compelling book. -- Emilye Crosby, author of \u003ci\u003eA Little Taste of Freedom: The Black Freedom Struggle in Claiborne County, Mississippi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this masterful biography of an American place, Sturkey compels us to look anew at the world made by white supremacy and remade by the black freedom struggle. \u003ci\u003eHattiesburg\u003c\/i\u003e is a timely reminder of how much remains to be said about our shared, segregated past, and few have said more in a single book than this author. This bold, imaginative book is essential reading for anyone seeking to fathom Jim Crow’s rise, fall, and resilience—in Mississippi and well beyond. -- Jason Morgan Ward, author of \u003ci\u003eHanging Bridge: Racial Violence and America’s Civil Rights Century\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHattiesburg is not connected in the popular mind with civil rights history in the way of Selma and Montgomery, but Sturkey’s vibrant history makes a strong case that, to understand how the civil rights movement emerged, it’s essential to spend time there. * Publishers Weekly *\u003cbr\u003eWhen they are at their best, historians craft powerful, compelling, often genre-changing pieces of history…William Sturkey is one of those historians…A brilliant, poignant work of history…Shows us—in a powerful way—the utility of taking a longer, more systematic view of the Jim Crow period. -- Charles W. McKinney Jr. * Journal of African American History *\u003cbr\u003eSturkey provides a moving account of the evil of white supremacy. * Choice *","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49526055469399,"sku":"9780674976351","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780674976351.jpg?v=1731862732","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/hattiesburg-9780674976351","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}