Debating Southern History - Ideas and Action in the Twentieth Century

Informationen zum Autor Bruce Clayton is professor of history at Allegheny College, Meadville, Pennsylvania. John Salmond is professor of history at LaTrobe University, Melbourne, Australia. Klappentext In this century, no region of the country has experienced greater social upheaval or undergone a more dramatic political transformation than the South. Now there is a textbook that critically examines the magnitude of these changes, the individuals who made them happen, and their influence on the rest of the nation. Noted historians Bruce Clayton and John Salmond explore the mind of the 'new South, ' from the pivotal 1920s to the tempestuous 60s. Zusammenfassung In the 20th century! no region of the US has experienced greater social upheaval or undergone a more dramatic political transformation then the South. This text critically examines the magnitude of these changes! the individuals who made them happen! and their influence on the rest of the nation. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Introduction Part 2 Southern Intellectuals Chapter 3 "Saving Souls" by Gerald W. Johnson (1924) Chapter 4 "Ode to the Confederate Dead" by Allen Tate (1926-1936) Chapter 5 William Faulkner's Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech (Dec. 10, 1950) Chapter 6 Letter from Lillian Smith to Martin Luther King, Jr. (Mar. 10, 1956) Chapter 7 Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham City Jail (Apr. 16, 1963) Part 8 The South in the Depression Decades Chapter 9 Report from Martha Gelhorn to Harry L. Hopkins, Director of the Federal Emergency Relief Agency, on Economic Conditions in South Carolina Folling the 1934 Textile Strike (Nov. 5, 1934) Chapter 10 The Unanimous Opinion of the Supreme Court in Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas (1954) Chapter 11 The Declaration of Ninety-Six Southern Congressmen against the Brown Decision (Mar. 12, 1956) Chapter 12 Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" Speech, Given at the Conclusion of the March on Washington (Aug. 28, 1963)...

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• Authors: Bruce Clayton, Bruce Salmond Clayton, Clayton Bruce, John Salmond, John A. Salmond, Salmond John
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.12.1999
• EAN: 9780847694136
• ISBN: 978-0-8476-9413-6
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Debating Twentieth-Century America; Debating Twentieth-Century Ame; Debating Twentieth-Century America; Debating Twentieth-Century Ame
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, History of the Americas, Central Southern States, Southeastern & South Atlantic States, US South, US South: South Atlantic States