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Christopher Asch (2008) appears to have transformed a doctoral dissertation comparing the views and experiences of two famous Mississippi figures from the civil rights movement era into a full length nonfiction text. This is Asch's first published book. It is clear from his introduction that the book was written in order to provide a contrast between the lived experiences of an affluent, powerful, white Southern male (Senator James O. Eastland) and a poor, barely educated civil rights female activist (Fannie Lou Hamer) who was his neighbor in Sunflower County, Mississippi. As Asch (2008) points out, it would be difficult to find a pair of Mississippians more diametrically opposed to one another. Whereas Eastland as a long time member of the U.S. Senate and a devout white supremacist resisted all efforts to end segregation, Hamer was equally active in the struggle to bring about true equality for all Americans. Asch (2008) traces the lives of these two indivi
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