Before Brown : civil rights and white backlash in the modern South

Feldman, Glenn. (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 0817314318 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN: 0817351345 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Physical Description: xiii, 430 p. ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, c2004.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

"You don't have to ride Jim Crow" : CORE and the 1947 journey of reconciliation / Raymond Arsenault -- T.R.M. Howard : pragmatism over strict integrationist ideology in the Mississippi Delta, 1942-1954 / David T. Beito and Linda Royster Beito -- "Blood on your hands" : white southerners' criticism of Eleanor Roosevelt during World War II / Pamela Tyler -- "City mothers" : Dorothy Tilly, Georgia Methodist women, and black civil rights / Andrew M. Manis -- Louisiana : the civil rights struggle, 1940-1954 / Adam Fairclough -- Communism, anti-communism, and massive resistance : the civil rights congress in southern perspective / Sarah Hart Brown -- E.D. Nixon and the white supremacists : civil rights in Montgomery / John White -- "Flag-bearers for integration and justice" : local civil rights groups in the South, 1940-1954 / John A. Salmond -- Winning the peace : Georgia veterans and the struggle to define the political legacy of World War II / Jennifer E. Brooks -- Ugly roots : race, emotion, and the rise of the modern Republican Party in Alabama and the South / Glenn Feldman.