Like Fire in Broom Straw: Southern Journalism and the Textile Strikes of 1929-1931

by Robert Weldon Whalen

The southern textile strikes of 1929-1931 were ferocious struggles--thousands of millhands went on strike, the National Guard was deployed, several people were killed and hundreds injured and jailed. The southern press, and for a time the national press, covered the story in enormous detail. In recounting developments, southern reporters and editors found themselves swept up on a painful and sweeping re-examination and reconstruction of southern...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313316988
• ISBN13: 9780313316982
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.5"