Before Brown - Civil Rights and White Backlash in the Modern South

Informationen zum Autor Glenn Feldman is Associate Professor of Business in the Center for Labor Education and Research at The University of Alabama at Birmingham and author of Politics, Society, and the Klan in Alabama, 1915-1949. Patricia Sullivan is Associate Professor of History at the University of South Carolina and author of Days of Hope: Race and Democracy in the New Deal Era. Klappentext Detailing the ferment in civil rights that took place across the South before the momentous Brown vs. Board of Education decision in 1954, this collection refutes the notion that the movement began with the Supreme Court decision, and suggests, rather, that the movement originated in the 1930s and earlier, spurred by the Great Depression and, later, World War II. Zusammenfassung Details the ferment in civil rights that took place across the South before the Brown vs. Board of Education decision in 1954. This collection suggests that the movement originated in the 1930s and earlier! spurred by the Great Depression and! later! World War II.

Product details

• Authors: Glenn (EDT)/ Feldman Feldman
• Assisted by: Glenn Feldman (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2004
• EAN: 9780817351342
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-5134-2
• No. of pages: 430
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 229 mm x 32 mm
• Series: Modern South; Modern & Contemporary Poetics; Modern South
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education