Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950

Product ID: 228248

Publication Date: 2008-01-07
Author(s):Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore
Binding: Hardcover
Number of Pages: 640
Publisher: W. W. Norton
ISBN: 0393062449
ISBN13: 9780393062441

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SKU	0393062449
Weight	1.05 Kgs
Price:	HK$360.00

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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 Russian—to the courageous fight of striking workers against police and corporate violence in Gastonia in 1929. In a dramatic narrative Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore deftly shows how the movement unfolded against national and global developments, gaining focus and finally arriving at a narrow but effective legal strategy for securing desegregation and political rights. Little-known heroes abound in a book that will recast our understanding of the most important social movement in twentieth-century America.

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