Title History and hope in the heart of Dixie : scholarship, activism, and Wayne Flynt in the modern South / edited by Gordon E. Harvey, Richard D. Starnes, and Glenn Feldman

Published Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 224 pages) Series The modern South Modern South. Contents 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 passage of 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 Summary Social and political history of the modern South. This collection of essays on the social and political history of the modern South consider the region's poor, racial mores and race relations, economic opportunity, Protestant activism, political coalitions and interest groups, social justice, and progressive reform. History and Hope in the Heart of Dixie illuminates the dual role of historian and public advocate in modern America. In a time when the nation's eyes have been focused by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita onto the vulnerability and dire condition of poor people in the South Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Flynt, Wayne, 1940- SUBJECT Flynt, Wayne, 1940- fast Subject Political culture -- Alabama -- History -- 20th century Religion and politics -- Alabama -- History -- 20th century Learning and scholarship -- Political aspects -- Alabama -- History -- 20th century Historians -- Alabama -- Biography Political culture -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century Religion and politics -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century HISTORY -- State & Local -- General. Historians Learning and scholarship -- Political aspects Political culture Politics and government Race relations -- Political aspects Religion and politics SUBJECT Alabama -- Politics and government -- 20th century Alabama -- Race relations -- Political aspects -- History -- 20th century Southern States -- Race relations -- Political aspects -- History -- 20th century Subject Alabama Southern States Genre/Form Biographies History Form Electronic book Author Harvey, Gordon E. (Gordon Earl), 1967- Starnes, Richard D., 1970- Feldman, Glenn. LC no. 2005029349 ISBN 9780817381950 0817381953

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