| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.2

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A Different Day: African American Struggles for Justice in Rural Louisiana, 1900–1970. By Greta de Jong. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. xviii, 316 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2711-8. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-5379-8.)

In A Different Day, Greta de Jong examines the struggles of local people in rural Louisiana for racial and economic justice from 1900 to 1970. Building upon the by-now familiar historical literature that ascribes agency to the seemingly powerless, she argues that black people in rural Louisiana did not compliantly submit to oppression, nor did they passively allow national leaders and groups to shape the civil rights movement. Rather, local black people resisted their subjugation in countless ways, and they seized the initiative in their fight for justice, often forcing national civil rights groups to adapt their strategies to suit local needs. Although national civil rights groups and rural black Louisianians agreed on the goals of ending racial segregation, especially in education, and gaining access to political power, local black people also sought economic independence and safety from white violence.

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