num_pages: 276
description: Brooks studies the competing efforts of black and white WW II veterans in Georgia, as they worked to shape postwar politics. Black veterans forged new grassroots networks to mobilize against candidates who opposed their vision of racial equality; reactionary white veterans, in turn, organized to support candidates who curbed openings toward greater equality in favor of a conservative, economically driven vision of modernization in the South.
language: English
title: Defining the Peace: World War II Veterans, Race, and the Remaking of Southern Political Tradition: World War II Veterans, Race, and the Remaking of Southern Political Tradition
titlecomplete: Defining the Peace: World War II Veterans, Race, and the Remaking of Southern Political Tradition: World War II Veterans, Race, and the Remaking of Southern Political Tradition
ratings_count: 7
publisher: The University of North Carolina Press