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Genre/Form: | Electronic books Biographies History Biography |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Brown, Sarah Hart, 1938- Standing against dragons. Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2000 (OCoLC)44049172 |
Named Person: | John Moreno Coe; Clifford J Durr; Benjamin Eugene Smith; John Moreno Coe; Clifford J Durr; Benjamin Eugene Smith; Clifford J Durr; Benjamin Eugene Smith; John Moreno Coe |
Material Type: | Biography, Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Sarah Hart Brown |
ISBN: | 9780807140192 0807140198 |
OCLC Number: | 701103962 |
Description: | 1 online resource (xvii, 308 pages) : illustrations |
Contents: | The problemed peace : civil libertarianism, antilibertarianism, and cold war doctrine -- On becoming southern liberals : prelude to 1948 -- Crossroads : progressive politics and other pipe dreams, 1948-1950 -- "Comes now Willie McGee" : communist causes in southern context, 1950-1954 -- Congressional offensive, 1954 : the SCEF investigation and its echoes -- After Brown : congressional anti-communism and southern "sedition," 1954-1961 -- "Radicals" and "Respectables" : the cold war against "outside agitators," 1958-1963 -- "They were the real subversives" : the Dombrowski case and the Mississippi crusade, 1963-1965 -- Epilogue and conclusion : "the importance of heresy." |
Responsibility: | Sarah Hart Brown. |
Abstract:
An examination of the careers of three lawyers who championed civil liberties and fought for civil rights in the two decades following World War II. John Coe, Clifford Durr and Benjamin Smith became southern dissenters, resisting both the anti-Communist right and southern segregation laws.
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