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Southern struggles : the southern labor movement and the civil rights struggle
- Title
- Southern struggles : the southern labor movement and the civil rights struggle / John A. Salmond ; foreword by John David Smith.
- Author
- Salmond, John A.
- Publication
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2004.
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- Description
- xiv, 212 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Comparing two major twentieth-century movements for reform, John Salmond explores parallels between the fight of white textile workers for economic justice and the pursuit of racial equality by black southerners. He argues that their separate efforts illustrate the dark underside of southern history in the struggle for political, industrial, and social democracy." "Salmond maintains that white workers in southern mills in the 1930s and 1940s shared common goals with black activists in the civil rights movement of the 1960s. He identifies similar leadership styles, sources of motivation, and strategies of protest. For both groups, he says, church leaders and religious imagery offered inspiration, and women achieved critical leadership roles, especially at local levels, that have long been ignored. Tragically, both movements were strongly opposed by vigilantism and organized community violence. "Those who challenged the social order did so at the daily risk of their lives," he writes. Whether white or black, those determined to bring about change faced equally determined resistance from the upwardly mobile white middle class."--BOOK JACKET.
- Series Statement
- New perspectives on the history of the South
- Uniform Title
- New perspectives on the history of the South.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-204) and index.
- Contents
- Foreword / John David Smith -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Story of the Struggles -- 3. Local Men, Local Women -- 4. The Way of the Lord -- 5. Agitators -- 6. Reprisals -- 7. The Government -- 8. Conclusion.
- ISBN
- 0813027039 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2003066577
- OCLC
- ocm53441337
- SCSB-4876640
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries