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In Search of the Silent South : Southern Liberals and the Race Issue / Morton Sosna.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Contemporary American History SeriesPublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1977]Copyright date: ©1977Description: 1 online resource (278 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780231915441
  • 9780231884259
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- One - The Silent South -- Two - The Commission on Interracial Cooperation -- Three - The Silent South of Howard Odum -- Four - Southern Liberal and the New Deal -- Five - The Southern Conference for Human Welfare -- Six - Jim Crow and the War -- Seven - Virginius Dabney Publicist for a Liberal South -- Eight - Literals amid Dixiecrats -- Nine - Lillian Smiths The Southern Liberal as Evangelist -- Ten - Conclusions: They, Too, Had a Dream -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Discusses the Southern liberals who criticized the maladjustment of race relations in the South, recognized that the existing system resulted in grave injustices for blacks, and who either actively endorsed or engaged in programs to aid Southern blacks in their fight against lynching, disfranchisement, segregation, and other blatant discrimination during the Jim Crow era. It also describes the influences of the Great Depression, the New Deal, and World War II influenced the Southern liberal.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780231884259

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- One - The Silent South -- Two - The Commission on Interracial Cooperation -- Three - The Silent South of Howard Odum -- Four - Southern Liberal and the New Deal -- Five - The Southern Conference for Human Welfare -- Six - Jim Crow and the War -- Seven - Virginius Dabney Publicist for a Liberal South -- Eight - Literals amid Dixiecrats -- Nine - Lillian Smiths The Southern Liberal as Evangelist -- Ten - Conclusions: They, Too, Had a Dream -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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Discusses the Southern liberals who criticized the maladjustment of race relations in the South, recognized that the existing system resulted in grave injustices for blacks, and who either actively endorsed or engaged in programs to aid Southern blacks in their fight against lynching, disfranchisement, segregation, and other blatant discrimination during the Jim Crow era. It also describes the influences of the Great Depression, the New Deal, and World War II influenced the Southern liberal.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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