History and hope in the heart of Dixie
Subtitle: scholarship, activism, and Wayne Flynt in the modern South
By: edited by Gordon E. Harvey, Richard D. Starnes, and Glenn Feldman.
Contributors: Harvey, Gordon E. 1967-; Starnes, Richard D., 1970-; Feldman, Glenn.
Series: The modern South
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780817315078; 9780817353209
Subjects: Flynt, Wayne, 1940-; Political culture -- Alabama -- History -- 20th century.; Religion and politics -- Alabama -- History -- 20th century.; Learning and scholarship -- Political aspects -- Alabama -- History -- 20th century.; Historians -- Alabama -- Biography.; Political culture -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.; Religion and politics -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.; Alabama -- Politics and government -- 20th century.; Alabama -- Race relations -- Political aspects -- History -- 20th century.; Southern States -- Race relations -- Political aspects -- History -- 20th century.
Genres: Biography.
Description: Can any good thing come from Auburn? / John Shelton Reed -- Revisiting race relations in an Upland South community : Lacrosse, Arkansas / Brooks Blevins -- Southern accents : the politics of race and the passage of the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 / Susan Youngblood Ashmore -- Is there a balm in Gilead? Baptists and reform in North Carolina, 1900-1925 / Richard D. Starnes -- The beginnings of interracialism : Macon, Georgia, in the 1930s / Andrew M. Manis -- Race, class, the Southern conference, and the beginning of the end of the New Deal coalition / Glenn Feldman -- "Wallaceism is an insidious and treacherous type of disease" : the 1970 Alabama gubernatorial election and the "Wallace freeze" on Alabama politics / Gordon E. Harvey -- Divide and conquer : interest groups and political culture in Alabama, 1929-1971 / Jeff Frederick -- The scholar as activist / Dewayne Key -- Evangelist for constitutional reform / Bailey Thomson -- The historian as public policy activist / Dan T. Carter.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Can any good thing come from Auburn? / John Shelton Reed; title: Revisiting race relations in an Upland South community : Lacrosse, Arkansas / Brooks Blevins; title: Southern accents : the politics of race and the passage of the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 / Susan Youngblood Ashmore; title: Is there a balm in Gilead? Baptists and reform in North Carolina, 1900-1925 / Richard D. Starnes; title: The beginnings of interracialism : Macon, Georgia, in the 1930s / Andrew M. Manis; title: Race, class, the Southern conference, and the beginning of the end of the New Deal coalition / Glenn Feldman; title: "Wallacism is an insidious and treacherous type of disease" : the 1970 Alabama gubernatorial election and the "Wallace freeze" on Alabama politics / Gordon E. Harvey; title: Divide and conquer : interest groups and political culture in Alabama, 1929-1971 / Jeff Frederick; title: The scholar as activist / Dewayne Key; title: Evangelist for constitutional reform / Bailey Thomson; title: The historian as public policy activist / Dan T. Carter.