In Search of the Silent South : : Southern Liberals and the Race Issue / / Morton Sosna.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Archive 1898-1999
• VerfasserIn: Sosna, Morton,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1977]; ©1977
• Year of Publication: 1977
• Language: English
• Series: Contemporary American History Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (278 p.)

Discusses the Southern liberals who criticized the maladjustment of race relations in the South, recognized that the existing system resulted in grave injustices for blacks, and who either actively endorsed or engaged in programs to aid Southern blacks in their fight against lynching, disfranchisement, segregation, and other blatant discrimination during the Jim Crow era. It also describes the influences of the Great Depression, the New Deal, and World War II influenced the Southern liberal.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- One - The Silent South -- Two - The Commission on Interracial Cooperation -- Three - The Silent South of Howard Odum -- Four - Southern Liberal and the New Deal -- Five - The Southern Conference for Human Welfare -- Six - Jim Crow and the War -- Seven - Virginius Dabney Publicist for a Liberal South -- Eight - Literals amid Dixiecrats -- Nine - Lillian Smiths The Southern Liberal as Evangelist -- Ten - Conclusions: They, Too, Had a Dream -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index