328 pages, 6 13/100 x 9 1/4
Notes, index.
Hardcover
Release Date:19 Aug 2007
ISBN:9780813030678
Making a New South
Race, Leadership, and Community after the Civil War
Edited by Paul A. Cimbala and Barton C. Shaw
University Press of Florida
By focusing on specific communities, these essays examine the efforts of individuals and small groups to build their vision of the New South. Ranging across the region, from Texas to Virginia, the essays examine specific events at the city or state level. Naturally, politics and race play a major role, from white Republicans in post-emancipation North Carolina to Northern Mississippi Rural Legal Services in the 1970s. Depression-era Atlanta, segregated Louisville, South Carolina governors, and the way memory affects race in twentieth-century Waco are among the broad range of studies offered in this collection. The contributors to Making a New South explore how white southerners attempted to rebuild their society after suffering defeat during the Civil War and how black southerners worked to establish themselves as free people with all the rights they believed that emancipation had promised to them. Collectively, these essays reveal the public endeavors of idealistic and pragmatic southerners of all races, including preachers, politicians, and public servants, to remake their world in the century following Reconstruction.
.recipient of the Organization of American Historians' Frederick Jackson Turner Award