Debating Southern History: Ideas and Action in the Twentieth CenturyRowman & Littlefield, 1999 - 197 pàgines 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. Clayton's focus is on the intellectual and artistic achievements of the period a time of immense creativity, when southern literary giants like William Faulkner, Zora Neale Hurston, and Robert Penn Warren rose to international prominence. Crucial to his analysis are the key intellectuals of the day among them W. J. Cash, Julia Peterkin, DuBose Heyward, and the Fugitive-Agrarians who formed a second component of the 'southern renaissance.' Clayton does not neglect the thought of regionalists, like Howard Odum and Arthur Raper; and he devotes special attention to the writings of civil rights leaders from Lillian Smith and Richard Wright to Martin Luther King, Jr. Salmond's essay focuses not on ideas but actions, his primary concern is the activists and organizations that created the ambitious agenda formulated by the great thinkers of the day. He pays particular attention to the legacy of southern labor organizers, especially in the textile industry, who led a series of critical strikes between the 1920s and 1940s that reshaped the region's manufacturing landscape. He also addresses the social reform movements that played a major role in transforming the everyday lives of whites and blacks across the South: the Southern Conference on Human Welfare, the Southern Regional Council, and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Following the essays are an overview of the subject, with reference to the current state of historical analysis, and a selection of relevant documents that allow students to draw their own conclusions about this complex period in American history." |
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REPORT FROM MARTHA GELLHORN TO HARRY L HOPKINS DIRECTOR OF THE FEDERAL EMERGENCY RELIEF AGENCY ON ECONO... | 163 |
THE UNANIMOUS OPINION OF THE SUPREME COURT IN BROWN V THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF TOPEKA KANSAS 1954 | 169 |
THE DECLARATION OF NINETYSIX SOUTHERN CONGRESSMEN AGAINST THE BROWN DECISION MARCH 12 1956 | 174 |
MARTIN LUTHER KINGS I HAVE A DREAM SPEECH GIVEN AT THE CONCLUSION OF THE MARCH ON WASHINGTON AUGUST 28 1963 | 177 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 181 |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 185 |
INDEX | 187 |
ABOUT THE AUTHORS | |
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Pàgina 169 - ... accorded when the races are provided substantially equal facilities, even though these facilities be separate. In the Delaware case, the Supreme Court of Delaware adhered to that doctrine, but ordered that the plaintiffs be admitted to the white schools because of their superiority to the Negro schools. The plaintiffs contend that segregated public schools are not "equal" and cannot be made "equal," and that hence they are deprived of the equal protection of the laws.
Pàgina 89 - Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it. There are no longer problems of the spirit. There is only the question: When will I be blown up? Because of this, the young man or woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat.
Pàgina 169 - MR. CHIEF JUSTICE WARREN DELIVERED THE OPINION OF THE COURT These cases come to us from the States of Kansas, South Carolina, Virginia and Delaware. They are premised on different facts and different local conditions, but a common legal question justifies their consideration together in this consolidated opinion.
Pàgina 171 - Today, education is perhaps the most important function of State and local governments. Compulsory school attendance laws and the great expenditures for education both demonstrate our recognition of the importance of education to our democratic society. It is required in the performance of our most basic public responsibilities, even service in the armed forces. It is the very foundation of good citizenship. Today it is a principal instrument in awakening , the child to cultural values, in preparing...
Pàgina 89 - I feel that this award was not made to me as a man, but to my work — a life's work in the agony and sweat of the human spirit, not for glory and least of all for profit, but to create out of the materials of the human spirit something which did not exist before.
Pàgina 95 - One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. I would agree with St.
Pàgina 172 - ... of the negro group. A sense of inferiority affects the motivation of a child to learn. Segregation with the sanction of law, therefore, has a tendency to [retard] the educational and mental development of negro children and to deprive them of some of the benefits they would receive in a racial [ly] integrated school system." * Whatever may have been the extent of psychological knowledge at the time of Plessy v. Ferguson, this finding is amply supported by modern authority, t Any language in Plessy...
Pàgina 95 - Lamentably, it is an historical fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily. Individuals may see the moral light and voluntarily give up their unjust posture; but, as Reinhold Niebuhr has reminded us, groups tend to be more immoral than individuals.
Pàgina 94 - Isn't negotiation a better path?" You are quite right in calling for negotiation. Indeed, this is the very purpose of direct action. Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. It seeks so to dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored.
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| Títol | Debating Southern History: Ideas and Action in the Twentieth Century Debating twentieth-century America G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series |
| Autors | Bruce Clayton, John A. Salmond, Emeritus Professor of American History John A Salmond |
| Editor | Rowman & Littlefield, 1999 |
| ISBN | 0847694143, 9780847694143 |
| Nre. de pàgines | 197 pàgines |
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