Making a New South
Subtitle: Race, Leadership, and Community after the Civil War (New Perspectives on the History of the South)
Contributors: PAUL A. CIMBALA (Editor); BARTON C. SHAW (Editor)
Edition: First edition
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: August 19, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780813030678
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; American history: from c 1900 -; History; History - U.S.; History: American; USA; United States - 19th Century/Gilded Age; United States - 20th Century; United States - State & Local - South; History / United States / 20th Century; 1865-1951; 1951-; Congresses; Social change; Southern States
Description: "By focusing on specific communities, these essays examine the efforts of individuals and small groups to build their vision of the New South. Ranging across the region, from Texas to Virginia, the essays examine specific events at the city or state level. Naturally, politics and race play a major role, from white Republicans in post-emancipation North Carolina to Northern Mississippi Rural Legal Services in the 1970s. Depression-era Atlanta, segregated Louisville, South Carolina governors, and the way memory affects race in twentieth-century Waco are among the broad range of studies offered in this collection. The contributors to Making a New South explore how white southerners attempted to rebuild their society after suffering defeat during the Civil War and how black southerners worked to establish themselves as free people with all the rights they believed that emancipation had promised to them. Collectively, these essays reveal the public endeavors of idealistic and pragmatic southerners of all races, including preachers, politicians, and public servants, to remake their world in the century following Reconstruction"--Publisher description.