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Food Power Politics: The Food Story of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement (Black Food Justice) houston Sapara Barton honors each andThis book unearths a food story buried deep within the soil of American civil rights history. Drawing on archival research, interviews, and oral histories, Bobby J. Smith II re examines the Mississippi civil rights movement as a period when activists expanded the meaning of civil rights to address food as integral to sociopolitical and economic conditions. For decades, white economic and political actors used food as a weapon against Black