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Before Brown : Civil Rights and White Backlash in the Modern South / edited by Glenn Feldman.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Modern South.
- Modern South
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- White supremacy movements--Southern States--History--20th century.
- White supremacy movements.
- Civil rights movements--Southern States--History--20th century.
- Civil rights movements.
- African Americans--Civil rights--Southern States--History--20th century.
- African Americans.
- Southern States--Politics and government--1951-.
- Southern States.
- Southern States--Politics and government--1865-1950.
- Southern States--Race relations.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (447 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Tuscaloosa, Alabama : The University of Alabama Press, 2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Details the ferment in civil rights that took place across the South before the momentous Brown vs.Board of Education decision in 1954 This collection refutes the notion that the movement began with the Supreme Court decision, and suggests, rather, that the movement originated in the 1930s and earlier, spurred by the Great Depression and, later.
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword - Patricia Sullivan; Prologue - Glenn Feldman; 1. ""You Don't Have to Ride Jim Crow"": CORE and the 1947 Journey of Reconciliation - Raymond Arsenault; 2. T. R. M. Howard: Pragmatism over Strict Integrationist Ideology in the Mississippi Delta, 1942-1954 - David T. Beito and Linda Royster Beito; 3. ""Blood on Your Hands"": White Southerners' Criticism of Eleanor Roosevelt during World War II - Pamela Tyler; 4. ""City Mothers"": Dorothy Tilly, Georgia Methodist Women, and Black Civil Rights - Andrew M. Manis
- 5. Louisiana: The Civil Rights Struggle, 1940-1954 - Adam Fairclough6. Communism, Anti-Communism, and Massive Resistance: The Civil Rights Congress in Southern Perspective - Sarah Hart Brown; 7. E. D. Nixon and the White Supremacists: Civil Rights in Montgomery - John White; 8. ""Flag-bearers for Integration and Justice"": Local Civil Rights Groups in the South, 1940-1954 - John A. Salmond; 9. Winning the Peace: Georgia Veterans and the Struggle to Define the Political Legacy of World War II - Jennifer E. Brooks
- Epilogue: Ugly Roots: Race, Emotion, and the Rise of the Modern Republican Party in Alabama and the South - Glenn FeldmanNotes; Contributors; Index
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8173-9033-2
- OCLC:
- 646343225
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