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The Westside slugger : Joe Neal's lifelong fight for social justice
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"The Westside Slugger tells the story of Joe Neal, who rose from the sharecropped fields of Madison Parish, Louisiana during the Great Depression to become a history-making state lawmaker in Nevada...
"The Westside Slugger tells the story of Joe Neal, who rose from the sharecropped fields of Madison Parish, Louisiana during the Great Depression to become a history-making state lawmaker in Nevada, once known derisively as "the Mississippi of the West." Neal was part of a group that worked courageously to register the first black voters in Madison Parish history, and he battled for equal rights against long odds on the floor of the Nevada Legislature for more than three decades."--Provided by publisher.
Details
- Creator
- John L. Smith
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Reno ; Las Vegas : University of Nevada Press, [2019]
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource
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- ISBNs
- 1948908042, 9781948908047, 9781948908030, 9781948908030
- OCLC
- on1050143041
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- From Louisiana soil -- Welcome to "the Mississippi of the West" -- Full service, full citizenship -- From photo opportunities to real opportunities -- Meet the new boss -- Breaking into the system -- Interrupting the party -- Poetry, prose, and pay toilets -- Showdowns, putdowns, and letdowns -- The measure of the law, tested by fire -- Fighting apartheid in the silver state -- : death and life in the '80s -- Causes, crotchets, and column inches -- A day for Dr. King, years in the making -- Standing on shaky ground -- Open doors, open books -- Radioactive politics -- The death of Charles Bush -- Smoke, and fire, and Rodney King -- Battling artful tax dodgers, and raising the stakes -- A fly in the anointment -- In the good fight, until the final bell