Format:
Online-Ressource (240 p)
ISBN:
9780817353209
Series Statement:
Modern South
Content:
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 d
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Description based upon print version of record
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Contents; Editors' Introduction; 1. Can Any Good Thing Come from Auburn?; 2. Revisiting Race Relations in an Upland South Community: LaCrosse, Arkansas; 3. Southern Accents: The Politics of Race and the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964; 4. Is There a Balm in Gilead? Baptists and Reform in North Carolina 1900-1925; 5. The Beginnings of Interracialism: Macon, Georgia, in the 1930s; 6. Race, Class, the Southern Conference, and the Beginning of the End of the New Deal Coalition
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7. "Wallaceism is an insidious and treacherous type of disease"": The 1970 Alabama Gubernatorial Election and Alabama Politics8. Divide and Conquer: Interest Groups and Political Culture in Alabama, 1929-1971; 9. The Scholar as Activist; 10. Evangelist for Constitutional Reform; 11. The Historian as Public Policy Activist; Contributors; Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780817381950
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780817315078
Additional Edition:
Print version History and Hope in the Heart of Dixie : Scholarship, Activism, and Wayne Flynt in the Modern South
Language:
English
Keywords:
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