History and hope in the heart of Dixie : scholarship, activism, and Wayne Flynt in the modern South

Harvey, Gordon E. (Gordon Earl), 1967- (Added Author). Starnes, Richard D., 1970- (Added Author). Feldman, Glenn. (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 0817315071 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780817315078 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN: 0817353208 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780817353209 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Physical Description: xii, 224 p. ; 23 cm.
Publisher: Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, c2006.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Can any good thing come from Auburn? / John Shelton Reed -- Revisiting race relations in an Upland South community : LaCrosse, Arkansas / Brooks Blevins -- Southern accents : the politics of race and the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 / Susan Youngblood Ashmore -- Is there a balm in Gilead? Baptists and reform in North Carolina, 1900-1925 / Richard D. Starnes -- The beginnings of interracialism : Macon, Georgia, in the 1930s / Andrew M. Manis -- Race, class, the Southern conference, and the beginning of the end of the New Deal coalition / Glenn Feldman -- "Wallaceism is an insidious and treacherous type of disease" : the 1970 Alabama gubernatorial election and the "Wallace freeze" on Alabama politics / Gordon E. Harvey -- Divide and conquer : interest groups and political culture in Alabama, 1929-1971 / Jeff Frederick -- The scholar as activist / Dewayne Key -- Evangelist for constitutional reform / Bailey Thomson -- The historian as public policy activist / Dan T. Carter.