Lost Revolutions: The South in the 1950sUniv of North Carolina Press, 2000 - 378 pages This sweeping work of cultural history explores a time of startling turbulence and change in the South, years that have often been dismissed as placid and dull. In the wake of World War II, southerners anticipated a peaceful and prosperous future, but as |
Contents
Going among Strangers | 7 |
Illustrations | 13 |
Creation and Destruction | 22 |
Harvey Goodwin performing in Little Rock September 25 1942 | 25 |
Walter Sillers | 31 |
Deprived and Mistreated | 39 |
James Stringer prepares the soil on this Mobile County Alabama farm | 43 |
Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson and Senator Alexander Wiley | 49 |
Fatal Divisions | 177 |
Hodding Carter | 190 |
Restrained Segregationists | 195 |
Donald Davidson | 199 |
The Best White Citizens | 209 |
Boswell Stevens | 217 |
Aaron E Henry at Rust College | 223 |
The Sound of Silence | 228 |
A Rogue Bureaucracy | 61 |
Field hands dust cotton with calcium arsenate using handoperated dusters | 64 |
U S Department of Agriculture chemist H D Mann analyzes milk from cows | 72 |
Popham | 79 |
Low Culture | 89 |
Group of men standing beside a moonshine still near Ellijay Gilmer County | 95 |
Wendell Scott | 108 |
Rhythms of the Land | 121 |
Sputnik Monroe | 127 |
Malcolm Amos and Billy Lee Riley | 140 |
A Little of the Rebel | 148 |
Cast of a Womanless Wedding 1940 | 159 |
Students dancing | 174 |
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