Southern exposure : making the South safe for democracy / Stetson Kennedy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kennedy, Stetson.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Southern States--Politics and government--1865-1950.

Southern States.

Southern States--Social conditions--1865-1945.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (396 p.)

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2011]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Using thorough and stark statistics, Kennedy describes a South emerging from World War II, coming to grips with the racism and feudalism that had held it back for generations. He includes an all-out Who's Who, based on his own undercover investigations, of the ""hate-mongers, race-racketeers, and terrorists who swore that apartheid must go on forever."" The first paperback edition brings to a new generation of readers Kennedy's searing profile of Dixie before the civil rights movement.

Contents:

Contents; Foreword to the 1991 Edition; 1. The Problem of the South; The Squalid South; Problem 1, Section 1; No Ready-Made Money; Grits without Gravy; Lethal Statistics; Be It Ever So Humble; Man and Land; The New Order of Slavocracy; The Perversion of Populism; Freedom Road-Closed; Last Hired, First Fired; Book Larnin', in Black And White; White Man's Country; The 7.7 Democracy of the South; The Plutocracy of Polltaxia; ""Votin' Is White Folk's Business""; 2. All's Hell on the Southern Front; The outhern Revolt; Constitutional Democracy Crusaders; Common Citizens Radio Committee

American Democratic National CommitteeDud or Time Bomb?; The Visible Empire; Kingfish and Small Fry; 3. The Road Ahead; Many Things Money Can Buy; Whose Good Earth?; TVA Leads the Way; The South Joins the Unions; Brotherhood-Union Made; Fair Employment Forever!; The Race Racket; Prejudice Is Made, Not Born; Myth of the Master Race; James Crow, Ph.D.; Total Equality, and How to Get It; To Make The South Safe For Democracy; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Originally published: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday & Co., 1946.

ISBN:

0-8173-8565-7

OCLC:

772845374