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Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights
1919-1950
by Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore

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• ISBN: 9780393062441 (0393062449)
• Language: english
• Release date: January 17, 2008
• Publisher: W. W. Norton Company
• Format: hardcover, 656 pages
• Genres: history, race, politics, historical
• Author: Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore

About The Book

The civil rights movement that loomed over the 1950s and 1960s was the tip of an iceberg, the legal and political remnant of a broad, raucous, deeply American movement for social justice that flourished from the 1920s through the 1940s. This contentious mix of home-grown radicals, labor activists, newspaper editors, black workers, and intellectuals employed every strategy imaginable to take Dixie down, from a ludicrous attempt to organize black workers with a stage production of Pushkin — in Russian — to the courageous fight of striking workers against police and corporate violence in Gastonia in 1929. In a dramatic narrative Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore deftly shows how the movement unfolded against national and global developments, gaining focus and finally arriving at a narrow but effective legal strategy for securing desegregation and political rights. Little-known heroes abound in a book that will recast our understanding of the most important social movement in twentieth-century America.

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