Fighting The Devil In Dixie

Author : Wayne Greenhaw
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781569768259

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Fighting the Devil in Dixie by Wayne Greenhaw Pdf

Examining the growth of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) following the birth of the civil rights movement, this book is filled with tales of the heroic efforts to halt their rise to power. Shortly after the success of the Montgomery bus boycott, the KKK—determined to keep segregation as the way of life in Alabama—staged a resurgence, and the strong-armed leadership of Governor George C. Wallace, who defied the new civil rights laws, empowered the Klan’s most violent members. Although Wallace’s power grew, not everyone accepted his unjust policies, and blacks such as Martin Luther King Jr., J. L. Chestnut, and Bernard LaFayette began fighting back in the courthouses and schoolhouses, as did young southern lawyers such as Charles “Chuck” Morgan, who became the ACLU’s southern director; Morris Dees, who cofounded the Southern Poverty Law Center; and Bill Baxley, Alabama attorney general, who successfully prosecuted the bomber of Birmingham’s 16th Street Baptist Church and legally halted some of Governor Wallace’s agencies designed to slow down integration. Dozens of exciting, extremely well-told stories demonstrate how blacks defied violence and whites defied public ostracism and indifference in the face of kidnappings, bombings, and murders.

Author : Michael A. Cohen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199382125

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American Maelstrom by Michael A. Cohen Pdf

In his presidential inaugural address of January 1965, Lyndon B. Johnson offered an uplifting vision for America, one that would end poverty and racial injustice. Elected in a landslide over the conservative Republican Barry Goldwater and bolstered by the so-called liberal consensus, economic prosperity, and a strong wave of nostalgia for his martyred predecessor, John F. Kennedy, Johnson announced the most ambitious government agenda in decades. Three years later, everything had changed. Johnson's approval ratings had plummeted; the liberal consensus was shattered; the war in Vietnam splintered the nation; and the politics of civil rights had created a fierce white backlash. A report from the National Committee for an Effective Congress warned of a "national nervous breakdown." The election of 1968 was immediately caught up in a swirl of powerful forces, and the nine men who sought the nation's highest office that year attempted to ride them to victory-or merely survive them. On the Democratic side, Eugene McCarthy energized the anti-war movement; George Wallace spoke to the working-class white backlash; Robert Kennedy took on the mantle of his slain brother. Entangled in Vietnam, Johnson, stunningly, opted not to run again, scrambling the odds. On the Republican side, 1968 saw the vindication of Richard Nixon, who outhustled Nelson Rockefeller, Ronald Reagan, and George Romney by navigating between the conservative and moderate wings of the Republican Party. The assassinations of the first Martin Luther King, Jr., and then Kennedy, seemed to push the country to the brink of chaos, a chaos reflected in the Democratic Convention in Chicago, a televised horror show. Vice President Hubert Humphrey emerged as the nominee, and, finally liberating himself from Johnson's grip, nearly overcame the lead long enjoyed by Nixon, who, by exploiting division and channeling the national yearning for order, would be the last man standing. In American Maelstrom, Michael A. Cohen captures the full drama of this watershed election, establishing 1968 as the hinge between the decline of political liberalism, the ascendancy of conservative populism, and the rise of anti-governmental attitudes that continue to dominate the nation's political discourse. In this sweeping and immersive book, equal parts compelling analysis and thrilling narrative, Cohen takes us to the very source of our modern politics of division.

Author : Rosalind Rosenberg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780190656478

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Jane Crow by Rosalind Rosenberg Pdf

Throughout her prodigious life, activist and lawyer Pauli Murray systematically fought against all arbitrary distinctions in society, channeling her outrage at the discrimination she faced to make America a more democratic country. In this definitive biography, Rosalind Rosenberg offers a poignant portrait of a figure who played pivotal roles in both the modern civil rights and women's movements. A mixed-race orphan, Murray grew up in segregated North Carolina before escaping to New York, where she attended Hunter College and became a labor activist in the 1930s. When she applied to graduate school at the University of North Carolina, where her white great-great-grandfather had been a trustee, she was rejected because of her race. She went on to graduate first in her class at Howard Law School, only to be rejected for graduate study again at Harvard University this time on account of her sex. Undaunted, Murray forged a singular career in the law. In the 1950s, her legal scholarship helped Thurgood Marshall challenge segregation head-on in the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case. When appointed by Eleanor Roosevelt to the President's Commission on the Status of Women in 1962, she advanced the idea of Jane Crow, arguing that the same reasons used to condemn race discrimination could be used to battle gender discrimination. In 1965, she became the first African American to earn a JSD from Yale Law School and the following year persuaded Betty Friedan to found an NAACP for women, which became NOW. In the early 1970s, Murray provided Ruth Bader Ginsburg with the argument Ginsburg used to persuade the Supreme Court that the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution protects not only blacks but also women - and potentially other minority groups - from discrimination. By that time, Murray was a tenured history professor at Brandeis, a position she left to become the first black woman ordained a priest by the Episcopal Church in 1976. Murray accomplished all this while struggling with issues of identity. She believed from childhood she was male and tried unsuccessfully to persuade doctors to give her testosterone. While she would today be identified as transgender, during her lifetime no social movement existed to support this identity. She ultimately used her private feelings of being "in-between" to publicly contend that identities are not fixed, an idea that has powered campaigns for equal rights in the United States for the past half-century.

Author : John M. Giggie,Associate Professor of History and Director of the Summersell Center for the Study of the South John M Giggie
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : History
ISBN : 9780197766668

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Bloody Tuesday by John M. Giggie,Associate Professor of History and Director of the Summersell Center for the Study of the South John M Giggie Pdf

This compelling work recovers a neglected episode in the Black community's long struggle for full citizenship when police and Klansmen stormed First African Baptist Church and brutalized over 600 unarmed protestors preparing to march for freedom. Bloody Tuesday, as Tuscaloosa residents called the day, is one of the most violent episodes in the civil rights movement.

Author : Sharon Monteith
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780820358048

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SNCC's Stories by Sharon Monteith Pdf

Formed in 1960 in Raleigh, North Carolina, the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was a high-profile civil rights collective led by young people. For Howard Zinn in 1964, SNCC members were “new abolitionists,” but SNCC pursued radical initiatives and Black Power politics in addition to reform. It was committed to grassroots organizing in towns and rural communities, facilitating voter registration and direct action through “projects” embedded in Freedom Houses, especially in the South: the setting for most of SNCC’s stories. Over time, it changed from a tight cadre into a disparate group of many constellations but stood out among civil rights organizations for its participatory democracy and emphasis on local people deciding the terms of their battle for social change. Organizers debated their role and grappled with SNCC’s responsibility to communities, to the “walking wounded” damaged by racial terrorism, and to individuals who died pursuing racial justice. SNCC’s Stories examines the organization’s print and publishing culture, uncovering how fundamental self- and group narration is for the undersung heroes of social movements. The organizer may be SNCC’s dramatis persona, but its writers have been overlooked. In the 1960s it was assumed established literary figures would write about civil rights, and until now, critical attention has centered on the Black Arts Movement, neglecting what SNCC’s writers contributed. Sharon Monteith gathers hard-to-find literature where the freedom movement in the civil rights South is analyzed as subjective history and explored imaginatively. SNCC’s print culture consists of field reports, pamphlets, newsletters, fiction, essays, poetry, and plays, which serve as intimate and illuminative sources for understanding political action. SNCC's literary history contributes to the organization's legacy.

Author : Tiffani Kelsi
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781387863808

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Model Combat: Bitch Fight by Tiffani Kelsi Pdf

Author : Lizzie Cary Daniel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Confederate States of America
ISBN : HARVARD:32044020271375

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Confederate Scrap-book by Lizzie Cary Daniel Pdf

This is an assortment of the author's clippings about major players on the stage of the Southern Confederacy along with anecdotes, poems, and songs with a Confederate theme.

Author : Rosemary Ellen Guiley
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781493043996

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The Big Book of West Virginia Ghost Stories by Rosemary Ellen Guiley Pdf

Hauntings lurk and spirits linger in the Mountain State Reader, beware! Turn these pages and enter the world of the paranormal, where ghosts and ghouls alike creep just out of sight. Author Rosemary Ellen Guiley shines a light in the dark corners of Virginia and scares those spirits out of hiding in this thrilling collection. From the headless ghosts wandering Droop Mountain to the tortured spirits of the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, there’s no shortage of bone-chilling tales to keep you up at night. Around the campfire or tucked away on a dark and stormy night, this big book of ghost stories is a hauntingly good read.

Author : Bruce C. Levine
Publisher : Random House Incorporated
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400067039

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The Fall of the House of Dixie by Bruce C. Levine Pdf

A revisionist history of the radical transformation of the American South during the Civil War examines the economic, social and political deconstruction and rebuilding of Southern institutions as experienced by everyday people. By the award-winning author of Confederate Emancipation.

Author : James Roberts Gilmore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1863
Category : Confederate States of America
ISBN : OXFORD:N10581850

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Life in Dixie's Land; Or, South in Secession-time by James Roberts Gilmore Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 804 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1862
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Rebellion Record by Anonim Pdf

Author : Frank Moore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 840 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1862
Category : United States
ISBN : STANFORD:36105118159966

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The Rebellion Record by Frank Moore Pdf

Author : Frank Moore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 838 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1862
Category : United States
ISBN : NYPL:33433081802872

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The Rebellion Record: Jany. '62-May '62 by Frank Moore Pdf

Author : Moore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 828 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1865
Category : United States
ISBN : NYPL:33433081802831

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The Rebellion Record by Moore Pdf

Author : Frank Moore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 824 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1862
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10253937

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The Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, with Documents, Narratives, Illustrative Incidents, Poetry, Etc by Frank Moore Pdf