Simple decency & common sense : the southern conference movement, 1938-1963
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Simple decency & common sense : the southern conference movement, 1938-1963
(Blacks in the diaspora)
Indiana University Press, c1991
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Simple decency and common sense
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"Bibliographical essay": p. [192]-195
Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-245) and index
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Description
'...a major contribution to the historiography of the recent South' - John Dittmer. '...an important contribution to the archives of integration and nondiscrimination' - "Publishers Weekly". In this pioneering study of the white southern liberalism, Linda Reed restores the Southern Conference for Human Welfare and the Southern Conference Educational Fund to a prominent place in American and southern history. During four decades the SCHW and SCEF, often in cooperation with the NAACP and other black organizations, sought to solve the major problems of the southern U.S. The SCEF became especially active in school integration during the 1950s and 1960s.
Table of Contents
Chronology Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: A New Answer to the Old Questions ofSouthern Proverty and Backwardness Chapter 2: How the southern Conference MovementOperated: Administration, Finances, Membership, and Literature Chapter 3: Alienation, Fear, and Red-baiting Chapter 4: Making Poll Tax a National Issue Chapter 5: Southern Liberalism and the Search forRacial Justice during World War II Chapter 6: Critical Years for SCHW Chapter 7: The Perpetuation of an SCHW Legacy Chapter 8: SCEF and the Challenge of Desegregation Chapter 9: White Southern Backlash and the HighPrice for a Just Cause Conclusion Bibliographical Essay Appendix Notes Index
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