Making the Modern South – serie
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Rationing Justice
Poverty Lawyers and Poor People in the Deep South
Av Kris Shepard
Häftad, 2009
400 kr
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Established in 1964, the federal Legal Services Program (later, Corporation) served a vast group of Americans desperately in need of legal counsel: the poor. In Rationing Justice, Kris Shepard looks at this pioneering program's effect on the Deep South, as the poor made tangible gains in cases …
Thomas Dixon Jr. and the Birth of Modern America
Av Michele K. Gillespie, Randal L. Hall
Häftad, 2009
352 kr
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A sweeping yet rigorous analysis of Dixon and his work. The collection approaches the southern intellectual through multiple methodologies - from literary theory and film studies to social history and religious studies. We get an exhaustive yet diverse perspective on Dixon's influence and legacy."" …
Delaying the Dream
Southern Senators and the Fight Against Civil Rights, 1938-1965
Häftad, 2010
400 kr
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Few historical events lend themselves to such a sharp delineation between right and wrong as does the civil rights struggle. Consequently, many historical accounts of white resistance to civil rights legislation emphasise the ferocity of the opposition, from the Ole Miss riots to the depredations …
Troubled Commemoration
The American Civil War Centennial, 1961-1965
Häftad, 2011
342 kr
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In 1957, Congress voted to set up the United States Civil War Centennial Commission. A federally funded agency within the Department of the Interior, the commission's charge was to oversee preparations to commemorate the one-hundredth anniversary of the central event in the Republic's history. …
Jim Crow's Counterculture
The Blues and Black Southerners, 1890-1945
Av R. A. Lawson
Häftad, 2013
400 kr
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In the late nineteenth century, black musicians in the lower Mississippi Valley, chafing under the social, legal, and economic restrictions of Jim Crow, responded with a new musical form, the blues. In Jim Crow's Counterculture, R. A. Lawson offers a cultural history of blues musicians in the …
Black Freedom, White Resistance, and Red Menace
Civil Rights and Anticommunism in the Jim Crow South
Inbunden, 2014
584 kr
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In Black Freedom, White Resistance, and Red Menace, Yasuhiro Katagiri offers the first scholarly work to illuminate an important but largely unstudied aspect of U.S. civil rights history - the collaborative and mutually beneficial relationship between professional anti-Communists in the North and …
New Orleans on Parade
Tourism and the Transformation of the Crescent City
Häftad, 2013
400 kr
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New Orleans on Parade tells the story of the Big Easy in the twentieth century. In this urban biography, J. Mark Souther explores the Crescent City's architecture, music, food and alcohol, folklore and spiritualism, Mardi Gras festivities, and illicit sex commerce in revealing how New Orleans …
Haunted by Atrocity
Civil War Prisons in American Memory
Häftad, 2016
400 kr
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During the Civil War, approximately 56,000 Union and Confederate soldiers died in enemy military prison camps. Even in the midst of the war's shocking violence, the intensity of the prisoners' suffering and the brutal manner of their deaths provoked outrage, and both the Lincoln and Davis …
Delta Empire
Lee Wilson and the Transformation of Agriculture in the New South
Häftad, 2016
342 kr
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In Delta Empire: Lee Wilson and the Transformation of Agriculture in the New South Jeannie Whayne employs the fascinating history of a powerful plantation owner in the Arkansas delta to recount the evolution of southern agriculture from the late nineteenth century through World War II.After his …
Maintaining Segregation
Children and Racial Instruction in the South, 1920-1955
Inbunden, 2017
722 kr
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In Maintaining Segregation, LeeAnn G. Reynolds explores how black and white children in the early twentieth-century South learned about segregation in their homes, schools, and churches. As public lynchings and other displays of racial violence declined in the 1920s, a culture of silence developed …
Petroleum and Public Safety
Risk Management in the Gulf South, 1901-2015
Inbunden, 2018
641 kr
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Throughout the twentieth century, cities such as Houston, Galveston, New Orleans, and Mobile grappled with the safety hazards created by oil and gas industries as well as the role municipal governments should play in protecting the public from these threats. James B. McSwain's Petroleum and Public …
Resisting Equality
The Citizens' Council, 1954-1989
Inbunden, 2018
569 kr
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In Resisting Equality Stephanie R. Rolph examines the history of the Citizens' Council, an organisation committed to coordinating opposition to desegregation and black voting rights. In the first comprehensive study of this racist group, Rolph follows the Citizens' Council from its establishment in …
Gin, Jesus, and Jim Crow
Prohibition and the Transformation of Racial and Religious Politics in the South
Inbunden, 2022
516 kr
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In Gin, Jesus, and Jim Crow, Brendan J. J. Payne reveals how prohibition helped realign the racial and religious order in the South by linking restrictions on alcohol with political preaching and the disfranchisement of Black voters. While both sides invoked Christianity, prohibitionists redefined …
Race and Restoration
Churches of Christ and the Black Freedom Struggle
Av Barclay Key
Inbunden, 2020
516 kr
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From the late nineteenth century to the dawn of the civil rights era, the Churches of Christ operated outside of conventional racial customs. Many of their congregations, even deep in the South, counted whites and blacks among their numbers. As the civil rights movement began to challenge pervasive …
Race and Education in New Orleans
Creating the Segregated City, 1764-1960
Av Walter Stern
Häftad, 2020
388 kr
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Surveying the two centuries that preceded Jim Crow's demise, Race and Education in New Orleans traces the course of the city's education system from the colonial period to the start of school desegregation in 1960. Walter C. Stern's timely historical analysis reveals that public schools in New …
Race, Crime, and Policing in the Jim Crow South
African Americans and Law Enforcement in Birmingham, Memphis, and New Orleans, 1920-1945
Av Brandon T. Jett, David Goldfield
Inbunden, 2021
531 kr
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Throughout the Jim Crow era, southern police departments played a vital role in the maintenance of white supremacy. Police targeted African Americans through an array of actions, including violent interactions, unjust arrests, and the enforcement of segregation laws and customs. Scholars have …
Race, Crime, and Policing in the Jim Crow South
African Americans and Law Enforcement in Birmingham, Memphis, and New Orleans, 1920-1945
Av Brandon T. Jett, David Goldfield
Häftad, 2023
400 kr
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Throughout the Jim Crow era, southern police departments played a vital role in the maintenance of white supremacy. Police targeted African Americans through an array of actions, including violent interactions, unjust arrests, and the enforcement of segregation laws and customs. Scholars have …
Going to Hell to Get the Devil
The 1972 Charlotte Three Case and the Freedom Struggle in a Sunbelt City
Av J. Christopher Schutz, David Goldfield
Inbunden, 2024
449 kr
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The 1968 burning of the Lazy B Stables in Charlotte, North Carolina, attracted little notice beyond coverage in local media. By the mid-1970s, however, the fire had become the center of a contentious and dubious arson case against a trio of Black civil rights activists, who became known as the …
Spying on Students
The FBI, Red Squads, and Student Activists in the 1960s South
Av Gregg L. Michel, David Goldfield
Inbunden, 2024
526 kr
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Gregg L. Michel's Spying on Students focuses on the law enforcement campaign against New Left and progressive student activists in the South during the 1960s. Often overlooked by scholars, white southern students worked alongside their Black peers in the civil rights struggle, drove opposition to …
1968 Florida Teachers' Strike
Public Sector Unionism and the Fight Against Sunshine State Conservatism
Av Jody Baxter Noll, David Goldfield
Inbunden, 2025
531 kr
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In early 1968, more than 27,000 teachers across Florida mailed their resignation letters, initiating the country's first statewide teachers' strike. The striking teachers fought for and won a monumental victory, improving education in the state and gaining collective bargaining rights for all …
Sandhill Cities
Metropolitan Ambitions in Augusta, Columbus, and Macon, Georgia
Av J. Mark Souther, David Goldfield
Inbunden, 2025
531 kr
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Sandhill Cities is a comparative history of Augusta, Columbus, and Macon, Georgia, in the twentieth century. Weaving together southern, urban, and environmental history, J. Mark Souther narrates urban boosters' hopes and actions in their pursuit of metropolitan stature in three midsized cities …
Deep South Democrats
Paradoxical Politics in the Age of Civil Rights
Inbunden, 2026
584 kr
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James O. Heath's Deep South Democrats is the story of three men who redefined the southern political landscape through unique voting records in health, housing, labor, and education. Olin Johnston of South Carolina and John Sparkman and Lister Hill of Alabama contributed to the massive impact of …
Fight for Visibility
Black Memphis Confronts the Lost Cause
Inbunden, 2026
478 kr
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In A Fight for Visibility, Donna E. Reeves explores how Black Memphians fought to maintain dignity and self-respect during the post-Reconstruction period and Jim Crow era by challenging the negative images of African Americans produced by Confederate loyalists as part of the Lost Cause narrative. …
Struggle for Black Freedom in Miami
Civil Rights and America's Tourist Paradise, 1896–1968
Häftad, 2026
501 kr
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Offering new insights into Florida's position within the cultural legacy of the South, The Struggle for Black Freedom in Miami explores the long fight for civil rights in one of the country's most popular tourist destinations. Chanelle N. Rose examines how the sustained tourism and rapid …
