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Genre/Form: | Biographies History Biography |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: History and hope in the heart of Dixie. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2006 (OCoLC)607760812 |
Named Person: | Wayne Flynt; Wayne Flynt |
Material Type: | Biography, Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Gordon E Harvey; Richard D Starnes; Glenn Feldman |
ISBN: | 0817315071 9780817315078 0817353208 9780817353209 |
OCLC Number: | 62109929 |
Description: | xii, 224 pages ; 23 cm. |
Contents: | Can any good thing come from Auburn? / John Shelton Reed -- Revisiting race relations in an Upland South community : Lacrosse, Arkansas / Brooks Blevins -- Southern accents : the politics of race and the passage of the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 / Susan Youngblood Ashmore -- Is there a balm in Gilead? Baptists and reform in North Carolina, 1900-1925 / Richard D. Starnes -- The beginnings of interracialism : Macon, Georgia, in the 1930s / Andrew M. Manis -- Race, class, the Southern conference, and the beginning of the end of the New Deal coalition / Glenn Feldman -- "Wallaceism is an insidious and treacherous type of disease" : the 1970 Alabama gubernatorial election and the "Wallace freeze" on Alabama politics / Gordon E. Harvey -- Divide and conquer : interest groups and political culture in Alabama, 1929-1971 / Jeff Frederick -- The scholar as activist / Dewayne Key -- Evangelist for constitutional reform / Bailey Thomson -- The historian as public policy activist / Dan T. Carter. |
Series Title: | Modern South. |
Other Titles: | History & hope in the heart of Dixie |
Responsibility: | edited by Gordon E. Harvey, Richard D. Starnes, and Glenn Feldman. |
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Abstract:
A collection of essays on the social and political history of the modern South, considering the region's poor, racial mores and race relations, economic opportunity, Protestant activism, political coalitions and interest groups, social justice, and progressive reform. It illuminates the dual role of historian and public advocate in modern America.
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- Alabama -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
- Alabama -- Race relations -- Political aspects -- History -- 20th century.
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