Reviews
"A valuable and timely volume . . . particularly welcome for the emphasis it places on the churches, on white women, and on returning black and white veterans, groups whose postwar role has been too long ignored."--Anthony J. Badger, author of Prosperity Road: The New Deal, Tobacco, and North Carolina and The New Deal: The Depression Years, 1933-1940, "A valuable and timely volume . . . particularly welcome for the emphasis it places on the churches, on white women, and on returning black and white veterans, groups whose postwar role has been too long ignored." --Anthony J. Badger, author of Prosperity Road: The New Deal, Tobacco, and North Carolina and The New Deal: The Depression Years, 1933-1940, "A valuable and timely volume . . . particularly welcome for the emphasis it places on the churches, on white women, and on returning black and white veterans, groups whose postwar role has been too long ignored."--Anthony J. Badger, author of Prosperity Road: The New Deal, Tobacco, and North Carolina and The New Deal: The Depression Years, 1933-1940 , , , , , ,, "A valuable and timely volume . . . particularly welcome for the emphasis it places on the churches, on white women, and on returning black and white veterans, groups whose postwar role has been too long ignored."--Anthony J. Badger, author of Prosperity Road: The New Deal, Tobacco, and North Carolina and The New Deal: The Depression Years, 1933-1940.
Table of Content
Acknowledgments Foreword, Patricia Sullivan Prologue, Glenn Feldman 1. "You Don't Have to Ride Jim Crow": CORE and the 1947 Journey of Reconciliation Raymond Arsenault 2 T. R. M. Howard: Pragmatism over Strict Integrationist Ideology in the Mississippi Delta, 1942-1954 David T. Beito and Linda Royster Beito 3. "Blood on Your Hands": White Southerners' Criticism of Eleanor Roosevelt during World War II Pamela Tyler 4. "City Mothers": Dorothy Tilly, Georgia Methodist Women, and Black Civil Rights Andrew M. Manis 5. Louisiana: The Civil Rights Struggle, 1940-1954 Adam Fairclough 6. Communism, Anti-Communism, and Massive Resistance: The Civil Rights Congress in Southern Perspective Sarah Hart Brown 7. E. D. Nixon and the White Supremacists: Civil Rights in Montgomery John White 8. "Flag-bearers for Integration and Justice": Local Civil Rights Groups in the South, 1940-1954 John A. Salmond 9. Winning the Peace: Georgia Veterans and the Struggle to Define the Political Legacy of World War II Jennifer E. Brooks Epilogue: Ugly Roots: Race, Emotion, and the Rise of the Modern Republican Party in Alabama and the South Glenn Feldman Notes Contributors Index
