Defining the peace : World War II veterans, race, and the remaking of Southern political tradition / Jennifer E. Brooks.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brooks, Jennifer E.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1939-1945--Veterans--Georgia.

World War, 1939-1945.

Veterans--Political activity--Georgia.

Veterans.

Veterans--Political activity.

Politics and government.

Georgia.

Georgia--Politics and government--20th century.

Physical Description:

xi, 256 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2004]

Summary:

Brooks studies the competing efforts of black and white WW II veterans in Georgia, as they worked to shape postwar politics. Black veterans forged new grassroots networks to mobilize against candidates who opposed their vision of racial equality; reactionary white veterans, in turn, organized to support candidates who curbed openings toward greater equality in favor of a conservative, economically driven vision of modernization in the South.

Contents:

Introduction : World War II veterans and the politics of postwar change in Georgia

The ballot must be our weapon : Black veterans and the politics of racial change

The question of majority rule : White veterans and the politics of progressive reform

Is this what we fought the war for? union veterans and the politics of labor

We are not radicals, neither are we reactionaries : good government, veterans and the politics of modernization

Hitler is not dead but has found refuge in Georgia : the General Assembly of 1947 and the limits of progress.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [235]-250) and index.

ISBN:

0807829110

0807855782

OCLC:

55801279