| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.2

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A Little Taste of Freedom: The Black Freedom Struggle in Claiborne County, Mississippi. By Emilye Crosby. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. xx, 354 pp. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-8078-2965-X. Paper, $21.95, ISBN 0-8078-5638-X.)
Over the past two decades, the modern African American freedom struggle in Mississippi has been the subject of some of the most celebrated works of historical scholarship. Emilye Crosby's investigation of the black freedom struggle in Claiborne County makes an impressive and original contribution to this topic. In fact, Crosby goes further than any previous scholar in meticulously keeping local people at the center of the narrative. The story that emerges is one of the most sensitive and insightful portrayals that we have of the foot soldiers in the southern civil rights struggle.	1
Crosby's analysis draws on over 120 interviews the author conducted, in addition to dozens of published oral histories. These are wonderfully rich sources from both local blacks and whites, and Crosby uses them with a deft touch. In doing so, she makes the book not only a study of political organization in Claiborne County's black community, but also a complex portrait of the history and memory of racial struggle and political conflict in a Deep South county.	. . .

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