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Toward the Meeting of the Waters : Currents in the Civil Rights Movement of South Carolina during the Twentieth Century
Title
Toward the Meeting of the Waters : Currents in the Civil Rights Movement of South Carolina during the Twentieth Century / edited by Winfred B. Moore Jr. and Orville Vernon Burton.
ISBN
9781643363363
9781570039713
9781570037559
Publication
Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, 2008.
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2022
Copyright Notice Date
©2008.
Physical Description
1 online resource (496 pages): illustrations
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Notes
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Summary
Brings together voices of leading historians alongside recollections from central participants to provide the first comprehensive history of the civil rights movement as experienced by black and white South Carolinians. --from publisher descriptioin.
Variant and related titles
Project Muse books annual backfile collection 2022.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 17, 2023
Contents
Pt. 1. Governors: From defiance to moderation : South Carolina governors and racial change / Tony Badger
Comments / Ernest F. Hollings, John C. West
Questions and answers
pt. 2. Aggressors: Lynching in the outer coastal plain region of South Carolina and the origins of African American collective action, 1901-1910 / Terence R. Finnegan. Conflicting expectations : white and Black anticipations of opportunities in World War I-era South Carolina / Janet G. Hudson
An "ominous defiance" : the Lowman lynchings of 1926 / Elizabeth Robeson
The civil right not to be lynched : state law, government, and citizen response to the killing of Willie Earle (1947) / William Gravely
This magic moment : when the Ku Klux Klan tried to kill rhythm and blues music in South Carolina / Frank Beacham
pt. 3. Reformers: Mr. NAACP : Levi G. Byrd and the remaking of the NAACP in state and nation, 1917-1960 / Peter F. Lau
The impact of 1940s civil rights activism on the state's 1960s civil rights scene / Wim Roefs
Seeds in unlikely soil : the Briggs v. Elliott school segregation case / Orville Vernon Burton, Beatrice Burton, and Simon Appleford
Five days in May : freedom riding in the Carolinas / Raymond Arsenault
The developmental leadership of Septima Clark, 1954-1967 / Stephen L. Preskill
pt. 4. Resisters: Memories and forebodings : the fight to preserve the white Democratic primary in South Carolina, 1944-1950 / James O. Farmer
Could history repeat itself? : the prospects for a second Reconstruction in post-World War II South Carolina / Robert R. Korstad
The White Citizens' Councils of Orangeburg County, South Carolina / John W. White
"Integration with (relative) dignity" : the desegregation of Clemson College and George McMillan's article at forty / M. Ron Cox Jr.
Memory, history, and the desegregation of Greenville, South Carolina / Stephen O'Neill
Schooling and white supremacy : the African-American struggle for educational equality and access in South Carolina, 1945-1970 / R. Scott Baker
pt. 5. Retrospectives: Briggs v. Elliott a half century later / John Hope Franklin, Joseph A. De Laine Jr., Beatrice Brown Rivers
Questions and answers
Voices from the civil rights movement in South Carolina / Charles F. McDrew, Constance Curry, Matthew J. Perry Jr., Harvey B. Gantt
The Orangeburg massacre / Cleveland L. Sellers Jr., Jordan M. Simmons III, Jack Bass
"We're not there yet" : Orangeburg, 1968-2003 / William C. Hine
pt. 6. Crosscurrents at century's end
The economics of the civil rights revolution / Gavin Wright
Civil rights and politics in South Carolina : the perspective of one lifetime, 1940-2003 / Dan Carter
How far we have come
how far we still have to go / Charles Joyner.
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