How did the political party of Lincoln--of emancipation--become the party of the South and of white resentment? How did Jefferson Davis s old party become the preferred choice for most southern blacks? Most scholars date these transformations to the administrations of Presidents Eisenhower, Nixon, and Reagan. Edward Frantz challenges this myopic view by closely examining the complex and often contradictory rhetoric and symbolism utilized by Republicans between 1877 and 1933.
Presidential journeys throughout the South were public rituals that provided a platform for the issues of...
How did the political party of Lincoln--of emancipation--become the party of the South and of white resentment? How did Jefferson Davis s old party...
Demonstrates how the jail, no bail tactic moved the movement from a response to a crisis to an event that drew media notice and focused the country s attention on the injustice of segregation. Choice Examines the history of the civil rights movement and the criminal justice system beyond the court rooms and into the arrests, jail cells, and prisons that were the locus of grassroots protests and organizing. Robert Cassanello, author of To Render Invisible: Jim Crow and Public Life in New South JacksonvilleIn this book, Zoe Colley follows civil rights...
Demonstrates how the jail, no bail tactic moved the movement from a response to a crisis to an event that drew media notice and focused the country s ...
"Is there really anything new to say about Reconstruction? The excellent contributions to this volume make it clear that the answer is a resounding yes. Collectively these essays allow us to rethink the meanings of state and citizenship in the Reconstruction South, a deeply necessary task and a laudable advance on the existing historiography."--Alex Lichtenstein, Indiana University
Freedom for African Americans is often assumed to have been granted and fully realized when Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. In reality, the meaning of freedom was vigorously, often...
"Is there really anything new to say about Reconstruction? The excellent contributions to this volume make it clear that the answer is a resounding...
"An eloquent and important examination of one of the most significant political trends of the last fifty years, revealing how prescient President Lyndon Johnson was on the occasion of his signing of the 1965 Civil Rights Bill when he made his famous comment about handing the South over to the Republicans for a generation."--Ralph Young, author of Dissent in America
Has the South, once the "Solid South" of the Democratic Party, truly become an unassailable Republican stronghold? If so, when, where, why, and how did this seismic change occur? Moreover, what are the implications...
"An eloquent and important examination of one of the most significant political trends of the last fifty years, revealing how prescient President L...
In the first book ever written about the impact of phosphate mining on the South Carolina plantation economy, Shepherd McKinley explains how the convergence of the phosphate and fertilizer industries carried long-term impacts for America and the South.
Fueling the rapid growth of lowcountry fertilizer companies, phosphate mining provided elite plantation owners a way to stem losses from emancipation. At the same time, mining created an autonomous alternative to sharecropping, enabling freed people to extract housing and labor concessions.
Stinking Stones and Rocks of Gold...
In the first book ever written about the impact of phosphate mining on the South Carolina plantation economy, Shepherd McKinley explains how the co...
