Before Brown Civil Rights and White Backlash in the Modern South |
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Editor:
| Feldman, Glenn |
Contribution by:
| Feldman, Glenn Manis, Andrew M. White, John Sullivan, Patricia Salmond, John A. Brooks, Jennifer E. Brown, Sarah Hart Arsenault, Raymond Beito, Linda Fairclough, Adam Tyler, Pamela |
Foreword by:
| Sullivan, Patricia |
Series title: | The Modern South Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-8173-1431-6 |
Publication Date: | Sep 2004 |
Publisher: | University of Alabama Press
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $69.95 |
Book Description:
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Before Brown details the ferment in civil rights that took place across the South before the momentous Brown vs. Board of Education decision in 1954. This collection refutes the notion that the movement began with the Supreme Court decision, and suggests, rather, that the movement originated in the 1930s and earlier, spurred by the Great Depression and, later, World War II--events that would radically shape the course of politics in the South and the nation into...
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Before Brown details the ferment in civil rights that took place across the South before the momentous Brown vs. Board of Education decision in 1954. This collection refutes the notion that the movement began with the Supreme Court decision, and suggests, rather, that the movement originated in the 1930s and earlier, spurred by the Great Depression and, later, World War II--events that would radically shape the course of politics in the South and the nation into the next century.