Table of Contents
Preface ix
Introduction xiii
Chapter 1 Son of Sharecroppers and Entrepreneurs: Rites of Passage in a Segregated Society 1
Chapter 2 Military Service, Family, and Profession: Challenging Contested Citizenship at War and at Home 19
Chapter 3 Aaron Henry, the NAACP, and Indigenous Leadership: The Clarksdale Social Movement 49
Chapter 4 Demanding Restoration of the Black Franchise: Henry Heads the Freedom Vote Ticket, a 1963 Mock Election 85
Chapter 5 An Alternative to the Segregated State Democratic Party: The MFDP Goes to Atlantic City, 1964 113
Chapter 6 Henry the Public Entrepreneur and Network Tactician: Exploiting National Allies and Cultivating Local Interracial Partners 137
Chapter 7 Private and Public Entrepreneurship for Redistributive Justice: Addressing African American Socioeconomic Disparities 167
Chapter 8 Taking the Reins of the State Democratic Party: Henry Wrests Power from the Segregationists 193
Chapter 9 The Summit and Culmination: Henry as a State Legislator and His Political Demise 229
Conclusion and Postscript 257
Notes 271
Bibliography 323
Index 345