Southern Exposure : Making the South Safe for Democracy.

Southern Exposure : Making the South Safe for Democracy.

Using thorough and stark statistics, Kennedy describes a South emerging from World War II, coming to grips with the racism and feudalism that had held it back for generations. He includes an all-out Who's Who, based on his own undercover investigations, of the "hate-mongers, race-racketeer...

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Main Author: Kennedy, Stetson
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2010.
Subjects:
1865-1950
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Politics and government
Social conditions
Regions & Countries - Americas.
History & Archaeology.
United States Local History.
Southern States > Politics and government > 1865-1950.
Southern States > Social conditions > 1865-1945.
Southern States
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword to the 1991 Edition; 1. The Problem of the South; The Squalid South; Problem 1, Section 1; No Ready-Made Money; Grits without Gravy; Lethal Statistics; Be It Ever So Humble; Man and Land; The New Order of Slavocracy; The Perversion of Populism; Freedom Road--Closed; Last Hired, First Fired; Book Larnin', in Black And White; White Man's Country; The 7.7 Democracy of the South; The Plutocracy of Polltaxia; "Votin' Is White Folk's Business"; 2. All's Hell on the Southern Front; The outhern Revolt; Constitutional Democracy Crusaders; Common Citizens Radio Committee.
  • American Democratic National CommitteeDud or Time Bomb?; The Visible Empire; Kingfish and Small Fry; 3. The Road Ahead; Many Things Money Can Buy; Whose Good Earth?; TVA Leads the Way; The South Joins the Unions; Brotherhood--Union Made; Fair Employment Forever!; The Race Racket; Prejudice Is Made, Not Born; Myth of the Master Race; James Crow, Ph. D.; Total Equality, and How to Get It; To Make The South Safe For Democracy; Index.

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