Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950

by Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore

Book Overview

The civil rights movement that looms over the 1950s and 1960s was the tip of an iceberg, the legal and political remnant of a broad, raucous, deeply American movement for social justice that flourished from the 1920s through the 1940s. This rich history of that early movement introduces us to a contentious mix of home-grown radicals, labor activists, newspaper editors, black workers, and intellectuals who employed every strategy imaginable to take...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393335321
• ISBN13: 9780393335323
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 690 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 5.4" x 8.2"