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2 Where Would the Negro Women Apply for Work? Wartime Clashes over Labor, Gender, and Racial Justice
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Building an American Heritage Building an American Heritage
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The Freedom Train, White Memphians, and Thought Control The Freedom Train, White Memphians, and Thought Control
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“Checkin' on the Freedom Train” “Checkin' on the Freedom Train”
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LeMoyne NAACP and the “Fight for Freedom” LeMoyne NAACP and the “Fight for Freedom”
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The 1948 Elections: Remembering the Freedom Train The 1948 Elections: Remembering the Freedom Train
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4 Night Train, Freedom Train: Black Youth and Racial Politics in the Early Cold War
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Published:May 2007
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Abstract
This chapter examines the politicization of young African Americans in Memphis in the early Cold War period and its intersection with the Freedom Train controversy and the 1948 elections. Focusing on the students at LeMoyne College, it looks at black youth's efforts to carve out identities for themselves as leaders in the “fight for freedom” by insisting on the eradication of racial injustice, along with their efforts to distinguish themselves from older black leaders, including those at the helm of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People's Memphis chapter. The chapter also considers how the idea of freedom connected blacks with the historical legacy of slavery and emancipation, and finally, describes the impact of the Freedom Train controversy on the 1948 elections in Memphis.
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