Hazel Brannon Smith : the female crusading scalawag / Jeffery B. Howell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Howell, Jeffery Brian, 1965- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Smith, Hazel Brannon.

Civil rights movements--Mississippi--History--20th century.

Civil rights movements.

Journalists.

Newspaper editors.

Journalism.

History.

Mississippi.

Journalism--Mississippi--History--20th century.

Newspaper editors--Mississippi--Biography.

Journalists--Mississippi--Biography.

Genre:

Biographies.

History.

Physical Description:

viii, 245 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2017]

Summary:

Smith's biography reveals how many historians have miscast white moderates of this period. Her peers considered her a liberal, but her actions revealed the firm limits of white activism in the rural South during the civil rights era. While historians have shown that the civil rights movement emerged mostly from the grass roots, Smith's trajectory was decidedly different. She never fully escaped her white paternalistic sentiments, yet during the 1950s and 1960s she spoke out consistently against racial extremism. This book complicates the narrative of the white media and business people responding to the movement's challenging call for racial justice. Book jacket.

Contents:

"I ain't no lady, I'm a newspaper woman" : the battle with bootlegging and organized crime

"This is white man's country and both races know it" : defending Jim Crow

From popular editor to pariah : the attempt to navigate through the sea of massive resistance

When moderate became a dirty word : the fight for economic survival

"This female scalawag domiciled in our midst" : the full-scale war with the white establishment

"The liberal Hazel Brannon Smith" : supporting the civil rights movement

"The price of speaking the truth has been high" : surviving in the post-civil rights era.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Howell, Jeffery Brian, 1965- author. Hazel Brannon Smith.

ISBN:

9781496810793

1496810791

OCLC:

953617894