New Deal/New South : an Anthony J. Badger reader.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Badger, Anthony J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Civil rights--Southern States--History--20th century.

African Americans.

Civil rights movements--Southern States--History--20th century.

Civil rights movements.

New Deal, 1933-1939--Southern States.

New Deal, 1933-1939.

White people--Southern States--History--20th century.

White people.

Southern States--History--1951-.

Southern States.

Southern States--History--20th century.

Southern States--Politics and government--20th century.

Southern States--Race relations--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (306 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

<div>Anthony J. Badger is Paul Mellon Professor of American History at Cambridge University and Master of Clare College. He is the author of a number of books, including North Carolina and the New Deal; The New Deal: The Depression Years, 1933-1940; The Making of Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement (with Brian Ward); and Contesting Democracy (with Byron Shafer).</div>

Contents:

Contents; Foreword by James C. Cobb; Introduction; 1. Huey Long and the New Deal; 2. How Did the New Deal Change the South?; 3. The Modernization of the South: The Lament for Rural Worlds Lost; 4. Whatever Happened to Roosevelt's New Generation of Southerners?; 5. Southerners Who Refused to Sign the Southern Manifesto; 6. The White Reaction to 'Brown' : Arkansas, the SouthernManifesto, and Massive Resistance; 7. "Closet Moderates": Why White Liberals Failed, 1940-1970; 8. From Defiance to Moderation: South Carolina Governors and Racial Change

9. "When I Took the Oath of Office, I Took No Vow of Poverty": Race, Corruption, and Democracy in Louisiana, 1928-200010. The Dilemma of Biracial Politics in the South since 1965; 11. Southern New Dealers Confront the World: Lyndon Johnson, Albert Gore, and Vietnam; 12. The Anti-Gore Campaign of 1970 (with Michael S. Martin); Acknowledgments; Notes; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781610752770

1610752775