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Joanna (Catherine) Barnett is a young woman who has had a difficult childhood. She had been under the control of domineering parents, and then a domineering husband. She has, after years of trying, become pregnant. But when she announces this to her husband, he leaves their home and subsequently refuses to talk to her or see her. In confusion she escapes to a rural area she remembers from happier times; there hiding under an assumed name. Follow the travels of Joanna as she begins her new life and her struggles to make it on her own. In Monongahela Snow Pass she finds employment, friendships,...

Joanna (Catherine) Barnett is a young woman who has had a difficult childhood. She had been under the control of domineering parents, and then a domineering husband. She has, after years of trying, become pregnant. But when she announces this to her husband, he leaves their home and subsequently refuses to talk to her or see her. In confusion she escapes to a rural area she remembers from happier times; there hiding under an assumed name. Follow the travels of Joanna as she begins her new life and her struggles to make it on her own. In Monongahela Snow Pass she finds employment, friendships,...

As its name suggests, the civil rights movement is an ongoing process, and the scholars contributing to this volume offer new geographical and temporal perspectives on this crucial American experience.
As Clayborne Carson notes in the introduction, the movement involved much more than civil rights reform--it transformed African-American political and social consciousness. In this timely volume John Dittmer provides a new assessment of the effects of grass-roots activists of the movement in Mississippi from 1965 to 1968, to show what happened after the famous Freedom Summer of 1964....