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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 155–165.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Kristal Brent Zook Abstract In 1990, in Indianola, Mississippi, there was a catfish-processing plant owned by 178 White male farmers. The workforce inside the plant was ninety percent Black and female. Led by an ordinary working mother turned union organizer named Sarah White, the women at Delta...
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Meridians (2018) 16 (2): 393–415.
Published: 01 March 2018
... in the Mississippi Delta will omit repetition of the data included in the previous brochures, copies of which are available in the files of the Medical Director, except for the following brief summary: The first project, conducted in Holmes County, Mississippi, in the summer of 1434, as a strictly educational...
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Meridians (2003) 3 (2): 278–288.
Published: 01 March 2003
... had led the largest strike of black workers in Mississippi history. I did not know that she and nearly 1,000 workers-most of them black women -had taken on Delta Pride, the largest catfish plant in the country. Their strike was "one of the most significant labor and civil rights victories...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (1): 94–151.
Published: 01 April 2019
... in the Black Freedom Struggle . New York : NYU Press . Hajo Cathy Moran . 2010 . Birth Control on Main Street: Organizing Clinics in the United States, 1916–1939 . Urbana : University of Illinois Press . Holland Endesha Ida Mae . 1997 . From the Mississippi Delta: A Memoir . New York...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (1): 32–64.
Published: 01 April 2020
... Mothers and Daughters . Boston : Beacon Press . Berg Allison . 2009 . “ Trauma and Testimony in Black Women’s Civil Rights Memoirs: The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It , Warriors Don’t Cry , and From the Mississippi Delta .” Journal of Women’s History 21 , no. 3...
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Meridians (2024) 23 (2): 392–416.
Published: 01 October 2024
... of Mississippi . Giddings Paula . 1988 . In Search of Sisterhood: Delta Sigma Theta and the Challenge of the Black Sorority Movement . New York : Morrow . Gilkes Cheryl Townsend . 2001 . If It Wasn’t for the Women: Black Women’s Experience and Womanist Culture in Church and Community...
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Meridians (2003) 3 (2): v–x.
Published: 01 March 2003
... invoked in Kristal Brent Zook's memoir essay, "Dreaming in the Delta," in which Zook reveals the struggles of union organizer Sarah White and the women of Local 1529 in Indianola, Mississippi. The piece serves at once as a reminder of working-class struggles that have taken place in the South...
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Meridians (2008) 8 (1): 180–204.
Published: 01 September 2008
... that mainlines the twice-removed blues of the Mississippi Delta by way of Keith Richards and the Edge-re-placing it and replaying it as the soundtrack for the Louisiana Gulf Coast women who, in this moment in time, on this night, at this benefit, will-through this act of soulful surrogation-indeed have their say...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 255–278.
Published: 01 December 2020
... of form and political content” by “secularizing gospel and lyrically anchoring it here and now [and declaring that] salvation is [of] this world” (Murray 2005 ), Blige recycles “One”—a song that mainlines the twice-removed blues of the Mississippi Delta by way of Keith Richards and the Edge—re-placing...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 1–12.
Published: 01 December 2020
... .” Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism 2 , no. 2 : 251 – 53 . Bhavnani Kum-Kum . 2000 . “ Organic Hybridity or Commodification of Hybridity? Comments on Mississippi Masala .” Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism 1 , no. 1 : 187 – 203 . Briggs Laura . 2020...
