Defying Dixie
The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950
Published on 17. June 2013
664 pages
978-0-393-34818-7 (ISBN)
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"Remarkable...an eye-opening book [on] the freedom struggle that changed the South, the nation, and the world." —Washington Post
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 Dixie down. In a dramatic narrative Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore deftly shows how the movement unfolded against national and global developments, gaining focus and finally arriving at a narrow but effective legal strategy for securing desegregation and political rights.
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Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore is the Peter V. and C. Vann Woodward Professor of History, African American Studies, and American Studies at Yale University. Her research interests include twentieth-century U.S. history; African American history since 1865; U.S. women's and gender history since 1865; history of the American South; and reform movements. Her publications include Norton's Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950, which was one of the American Library Association's Notable Books and the Washington Post's Best Books of 2008, and she edited Who Were the Progressives? and co-edited Jumpin' Jim Crow: Southern Politics from Civil War to Civil Rights. Her first book, Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920, won the Frederick Jackson Turner Award, the James A. Rawley Prize, the Julia Cherry Spruill Prize, and the Heyman Prize.
Content
- Cover
- Title
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction: Sunset in Dixie
- Part One: Incursions
- 1 Jim Crow Meets Karl Marx
- The Southern Solution
- Snapshots from Jim Crow's World Tour
- The Communist Solution
- From Tuskegee to Moscow
- The "Reddest of the Blacks
- Agitating the Uplifters
- Race as Class in the USSR
- Learning to Be Black Bolsheviks
- Building a Black Communist Base
- The Conundrum of Race, Class, and Nation
- Self-Determination for the Black Belt
- 2 Raising the Red Flag in the South
- From Comintern to Cotton Mill
- Black Equality, Red Scare
- Saved by the "Crackers
- We Will Never . . . Let Our Leaders Die
- Setting Down Communist Roots
- From Cotton Mill to Comintern
- 3 From the Great Depression to the Great Terror
- The Politics of Hunger on the Right
- The Politics of Hunger on the Left
- Derailing the Rape Myth in Scottsboro
- Sons and Daughters of Scottsboro
- Seeking Solutions in the USSR
- Finding the Great Terror
- Part Two: Resistance
- 4 The Nazis and Dixie
- The Trials of Angelo Herndon
- Fighting Fire with Fire, ADOLPH HITLER, K.K.K.
- Homegrown Radicals
- GEORGIA OFFICIALS APE HITLER TERROR
- African Americans Confront Fascism
- A Southern Popular Front
- Fair Play and the Fascists
- What Else Are Jim-Crow Laws but Fascist Laws?
- Intimations of the Holocaust
- 5 Moving Left from Chapel Hill to Cape Town
- Liberals Meet the Left
- Outside Agitation and Southern Conversions
- Building a New Left in the New South
- The Bankruptcy of the Interracial Cooperation Model
- Southern New Dealers Imagine a New South
- Interracialism's International Crisis
- 6 Imagining Integration
- North Carolina's Daughter
- Storming the Ivory Tower
- Pauli Murray, Applicant
- Frank Porter Graham's Dilemma
- Not Waiting for Roosevelt
- Rah, Rah, Carolina . . . lina
- Plaintiff Pauli Murray
- Fred and Red Come Home
- Part Three: Rebellion
- 7 Explosives in Democracy's Arsenal
- African Americans and the Nonaggression Pact
- Randolph, Yergan, and the National Negro Congress
- Is This My People's War?
- Greyhounds, Guts, and Gandhi
- Sharecropping and Justice
- The Poll Tax as a National Problem
- Exposing Sharecropping and the Poll Tax
- 8 Guerrillas in the Good War
- Snatched from the Jaws of a Red Scare
- Taking It to the Streets
- Pauli Murray's March on Washington
- The South" under Siege
- What Does the Negro Want?
- The Agony of White Southern Liberals
- Pauli Murray's Sit-Ins
- I Am an American, Too
- 9 Cold War Casualties
- Lessons of the Holocaust
- The U.S. in the UN
- Presidential Civil Rights
- Civil Rights, Anti-Communism, and the Election of 1948
- Breaking Frank Graham
- Tipping Junius Scales
- Turning Max Yergan
- Being Pauli Murray
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Permissions
- Index
- More Praise for Defying Dixie
- Photo Section
- Copyright
