Currents in the Civil Rights Movement of South Carolina during the Twentieth Century
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Köp båda 2 för 690 krA 2009 Choice Outstanding Academic Title This lively collection of scholarly and anecdotal presentations is an essential addition to the library of anyone interested in one of the greatest civil battles of our time. It will shatter all superficial assumptions that little was done during the early part of the last century. Most importantly, it establishes unequivocally the critical role South Carolina played in the tragedies, dramas, and hard-fought victories of this age. Charleston (S.C.) Post & Courier This is an important book. Through a wonderful variety of forms including memoirs, discussions, essays, and photographs it chronicles a turbulent period in our state's history. The South Carolina of today is a product of that period. Toward the Meeting of the Waters informs us about how much our state and its people have changed since the 1950s, but, it also informs us that, in terms of race relations, we still have a way to go. Walter Edgar, author of South Carolina: A History and editor of The South Carolina Encyclopedia Organized chronologically, the book gives a powerful description of . . . repression, redemption, and survival in a southern state in the era of Jim Crow. Add on contributions from Dan Carter, Jack Bass, and Cleveland Sellers, and the reader has that rarest of works an anthology that sticks to a theme with coherence. There is no better place to begin a study of South Carolina politics, or southern history, for that matter. An outstanding work. Choice Amid the riveting first-person accounts and intriguing historical themes, something transformative occurs . . . in [this] immensely moving book. Columbia (S.C.) State
Winfred B. Moore Jr. is a professor of history and dean of humanities and social sciences at the Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina. He is the coeditor of five earlier books of essays, including Warm Ashes: Issues in Southern History at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century. Orville Vernon Burton is the Burroughs Distinguished Professor of Southern History and Culture at Coastal Carolina University. His numerous books on Southern history include The Age of Lincoln and In My Father's House Are Many Mansions: Family and Community in Edgefield, South Carolina.