Title Defying Dixie : the radical roots of civil rights, 1919-1950 / Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore

Published New York ; London : W.W. Norton, 2009

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Description xii, 646 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm Contents Jim Crow meets Karl Marx -- Raising the red flag in the South -- From the Great Depression to the great terror -- The Nazis and Dixie -- Moving left from Chapel Hill to Cape Town -- Imagining integration -- Explosives in democracy's arsenal -- Guerrillas in the good war -- Cold War casualties Summary The civil rights movement that looms over the 1950s and 1960s was the tip of an iceberg, the legal and political remnant of a broad, raucous, deeply American movement for social justice that flourished from the 1920s through the 1940s. This rich history of that early movement introduces us to a contentious mix of home-grown radicals, labor activists, newspaper editors, black workers, and intellectuals who employed every strategy imaginable to take Dixie down. --from publisher description Notes Originally published: 2008 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 559-620) and index Subject Social justice -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century Social movements -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century Radicalism -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century Civil rights movements -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century African Americans -- Civil rights -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century Political activists -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century Social reformers -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century Reformers -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century African Americans -- Civil rights. Civil rights movements. Political activists. Politics and government. Race relations. Radicalism. Social conditions. Social justice. Social movements. Social reformers. Bürgerrecht Ethnische Beziehungen SUBJECT Southern States -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950 Southern States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century Southern States -- Social conditions -- 20th century Subject Southern States. USA -- Südstaaten Genre/Form History. ISBN 9780393335323 0393335321

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