A history of the Southern men and women, Black and white alike, who led the battle for civil rights prior to the Supreme Court's 1954 Brown decision.
Speak Now Against the Day is the astonishing, little-known story of the Southerners who, in the generation before the Supreme Court outlawed school segregation and before Rosa Parks refused to surrender her seat on a Montgomery bus, challenged the validity of a white ruling clas…
Speak Now Against the Day is the astonishing, little-known story of the Southerners who, in the generation before the Supreme Court outlawed school segregation and before Rosa Parks refused to surrender her seat on a Montgomery bus, challenged the validity of a white ruling clas…
"Deep Souths tells the stories of three southern regions from Reconstruction to World War II: the Georgia Sea Islands and Atlantic coast, the eastern Piedmont of Georgia, and the Mississippi-Yazoo Delta." "Based on more than a decade of research in a wide range of sources, from…
This book tells the stories of three southern regions from Reconstruction to World War II: the Georgia Sea Islands and the Atlantic coast, the eastern Piedmont of Georgia, and the Mississippi-Yazoo Delta. Based on more than a decade of research in a range of sources, from census…