Let the People Decide
Let the People Decide is a novel written by J. Todd Moye that discusses the black freedom and white resistance movements in Sunflower County, Mississippi, from 1945 to 1986. The novel tracks what it was like for African Americans in Sunflower County during the Civil Rights movement (1954-1968), and also notes the struggles that still remained for African Americans during the 1980s. Moye also notes the white resistance movements towards the Civil Rights movements, and also how the middle and upper class white citizens of the county attempted to obstruct the desegregation of schools set in the Supreme Court’s Brown decision in 1954. Even though there are differences in the movements of the 1950s and 1960s compared to the struggles in the 1980s, there are still a lot of similarities in the way the black population came together and how the white population attempted to resist the movements. In both instances, the black population pushed for equality and was met with resistance. The difference between the two is that during the 50s and 60s blacks were fighting for an end to the Jim Crow laws and to gain Civil Rights equal to that of the whites, and in the 80s they were fighting for representation in the school system.
Post World War II, the main focus of African Americans in Sunflower County was voting …show more content…
If it was not for the movement of desegregating school, then the movement of the 80s would not have existed altogether. The major difference in the two movements was the acts of violence. In the 50s and 60s, the African Americans who stood up against their oppressors were often met with violence and some were even killed. However, in the 80s the African Americans were not met with any extreme violence, they were met with subtler tactics. The struggle of the 1980s built upon the movements of the 50s and 60s in two
Let the People Decide is a novel written by J. Todd Moye that discusses the black freedom and white resistance movements in Sunflower County, Mississippi, from 1945 to 1986. The novel tracks what it was like for African Americans in Sunflower County during the Civil Rights movement (1954-1968), and also notes the struggles that still remained for African Americans during the 1980s. Moye also notes the white resistance movements towards the Civil Rights movements, and also how the middle and upper class white citizens of the county attempted to obstruct the desegregation of schools set in the Supreme Court’s Brown decision in 1954. Even though there are differences in the movements of the 1950s and 1960s compared to the struggles in the 1980s, there are still a lot of similarities in the way the black population came together and how the white population attempted to resist the movements. In both instances, the black population pushed for equality and was met with resistance. The difference between the two is that during the 50s and 60s blacks were fighting for an end to the Jim Crow laws and to gain Civil Rights equal to that of the whites, and in the 80s they were fighting for representation in the school system.
Post World War II, the main focus of African Americans in Sunflower County was voting …show more content…
If it was not for the movement of desegregating school, then the movement of the 80s would not have existed altogether. The major difference in the two movements was the acts of violence. In the 50s and 60s, the African Americans who stood up against their oppressors were often met with violence and some were even killed. However, in the 80s the African Americans were not met with any extreme violence, they were met with subtler tactics. The struggle of the 1980s built upon the movements of the 50s and 60s in two