Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights: 1919-1950
Description
A groundbreaking history of the Southern movement for social justice that gave birth to civil rights. The civil rights movement that loomed 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 contentious mix of home-grown radicals, labor activists, newspaper editors, black workers, and intellectuals employed every strategy imaginable to take Dixie down, from a ludicrous attempt to organize black workers with a stage production of Pushkin―in ...
ISBN(s)
0393062449, 9780393062441
