We Ain't What We Was: Civil Rights in the New South

by Frederick M. Wirt

When officials of the U.S. Department of Justice came in 1961 to Panola County in the Mississippi delta, they found a closed society in which race relations had not altered significantly since Reconstruction. Much has changed, however, in Mississippi in the past three decades, as Frederick Wirt demonstrates in " We Ain't What We Was ," a remarkable look inside the New South. In this follow-up to his highly praised 1970 study of Panola County, The...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822318938
• ISBN13: 9780822318934
• Release Date: February 1997
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.2"