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Going To Hell To Get The Devil - The 1972 Charlotte Three Case And The Freedom Struggle In A Sunbelt City

by J. Christopher Schutz

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 The 1968 burning of the Lazy B Stables in Charlotte, North Carolina, attracted little notice beyond local media. By the mid-1970s, the fire had become the centre of a dubious arson case against a trio of Black civil rights activists. J. Christopher Schutz offers the first comprehensive examination of this controversial case and its outcome.
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Sandhill Cities - Metropolitan Ambitions In Augusta, Columbus, And Macon, Georgia

by J. Mark Souther

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 Sandhill Cities is a comparative history of Augusta, Columbus, and Macon, Georgia, in the twentieth century. Weaving together southern, urban, and environmental history, J. Mark Souther narrates urban boosters’ hopes and actions in their pursuit of metropolitan stature in three midsized cities situated along the fall line running through the middle of the state.
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1968 Florida Teachers' Strike - Public Sector Unionism And The Fight Against Sunshine State Conservatism

by Jody Baxter Noll

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 In early 1968, more than 27,000 teachers across Florida mailed their resignation letters, initiating the country’s first statewide teachers’ strike. The striking teachers fought for and won a monumental victory, improving education in the state and gaining collective bargaining rights for all public sector employees. Even as the influence of industrial labor unions decreased across the country, the Florida teachers’ strike and the spirit of teacher militancy that swept the nation during the late 1960s and 1970s demonstrate that a vibrant labor movement remained. Jody Baxter Noll’s study challenges the prevailing view of these decades as a period of decline for the American labor movement by turning the spotlight on teachers and public sector unionism. In his examination of the 1968 strike and its aftermath, Noll illuminates the vital role of teachers in shaping political and social policy in the United States. As a predominantly women-led workforce, teachers challenged notions of feminine passivity in their mobilization efforts and used their union to fight for gender equality. The strike also provides insight into how interracial unionism could be a potent weapon for labor movements, even in the Deep South. In exploring the political and social factors that prompted the teachers’ strike, Noll considers Florida’s instrumental role in forming modern conservatism. Led by Republican governor Claude Kirk, the first Republican governor elected in the Deep South since Reconstruction, Florida helped to create a blueprint for Republicans to build a New Right powerhouse throughout the country. Though Florida has remained on the periphery of much scholarship on the ascendancy of the New Right, Noll demonstrates that the state more accurately reflects the nation’s political attitudes than much of the rest of the South because of its economic, racial, social, and political diversity.
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1968 Florida Teachers' Strike - Public Sector Unionism And The Fight Against Sunshine State Conservatism

by Jody Baxter Noll

~~26,43€~~ 23,79€ 10% OFF

 In early 1968, more than 27,000 teachers across Florida mailed their resignation letters, initiating the country’s first statewide teachers’ strike. The striking teachers fought for and won a monumental victory, improving education in the state and gaining collective bargaining rights for all public sector employees. Even as the influence of industrial labor unions decreased across the country, the Florida teachers’ strike and the spirit of teacher militancy that swept the nation during the late 1960s and 1970s demonstrate that a vibrant labor movement remained. Jody Baxter Noll’s study challenges the prevailing view of these decades as a period of decline for the American labor movement by turning the spotlight on teachers and public sector unionism. In his examination of the 1968 strike and its aftermath, Noll illuminates the vital role of teachers in shaping political and social policy in the United States. As a predominantly women-led workforce, teachers challenged notions of feminine passivity in their mobilization efforts and used their union to fight for gender equality. The strike also provides insight into how interracial unionism could be a potent weapon for labor movements, even in the Deep South. In exploring the political and social factors that prompted the teachers’ strike, Noll considers Florida’s instrumental role in forming modern conservatism. Led by Republican governor Claude Kirk, the first Republican governor elected in the Deep South since Reconstruction, Florida helped to create a blueprint for Republicans to build a New Right powerhouse throughout the country. Though Florida has remained on the periphery of much scholarship on the ascendancy of the New Right, Noll demonstrates that the state more accurately reflects the nation’s political attitudes than much of the rest of the South because of its economic, racial, social, and political diversity.
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Spying On Students - The Fbi, Red Squads, And Student Activists In The 1960s South

by Gregg L. Michel

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 Focuses on the law enforcement campaign against New Left and progressive student activists in the South during the 1960s. Often overlooked by scholars, white southern students worked alongside their Black peers in the civil rights struggle, drove opposition to the Vietnam War, and embraced the counterculture's rejection of conventions and norms.
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Spying On Students - The Fbi, Red Squads, And Student Activists In The 1960s South

by Gregg L. Michel

~~26,43€~~ 23,79€ 10% OFF

 Focuses on the law enforcement campaign against New Left and progressive student activists in the South during the 1960s. Often overlooked by scholars, white southern students worked alongside their Black peers in the civil rights struggle, drove opposition to the Vietnam War, and embraced the counterculture's rejection of conventions and norms.
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Going To Hell To Get The Devil - The 1972 Charlotte Three Case And The Freedom Struggle In A Sunbelt City

by J. Christopher Schutz

~~26,43€~~ 23,79€ 10% OFF

 The 1968 burning of the Lazy B Stables in Charlotte, North Carolina, attracted little notice beyond local media. By the mid-1970s, the fire had become the centre of a dubious arson case against a trio of Black civil rights activists. J. Christopher Schutz offers the first comprehensive examination of this controversial case and its outcome.
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Going To Hell To Get The Devil - The 1972 Charlotte Three Case And The Freedom Struggle In A Sunbelt City

by J. Christopher Schutz

~~26,43€~~ 23,79€ 10% OFF

 The 1968 burning of the Lazy B Stables in Charlotte, North Carolina, attracted little notice beyond local media. By the mid-1970s, the fire had become the centre of a dubious arson case against a trio of Black civil rights activists. J. Christopher Schutz offers the first comprehensive examination of this controversial case and its outcome.
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Race, Crime, And Policing In The Jim Crow South - African Americans And Law Enforcement In Birmingham, Memphis, And New Orleans, 1920-1945

by Brandon T. Jett

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 Reveals previously unrecognized efforts by African Americans to use, manage, and exploit policing. In the process, Brandon Jett exposes a complex relationship, suggesting that while violence or the threat of violence shaped police and minority relations, it did not define all interactions.
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Gin, Jesus, And Jim Crow - Prohibition And The Transformation Of Racial And Religious Politics In The South

by Brendan J. J. Payne

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 Reveals how prohibition helped realign the racial and religious order in the American South by linking restrictions on alcohol with political preaching and the disfranchisement of Black voters.
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Creating A Progressive Commonwealth - Women Activists, Feminism, And The Politics Of Social Change In Virginia, 1970s-2000s

by Megan Taylor Shockley

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 Building upon the work of late twentieth-century scholars in the field of feminist studies, Megan Taylor Shockley provides an in-depth look at feminism in the modern US South. Shockley challenges the monolithic view of the region as a conservative bastion and argues that feminist advocates have provided crucial social progressive force.
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Race And Education In New Orleans - Creating The Segregated City, 1764-1960

by Walter Stern

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 Surveying the two centuries that preceded Jim Crow's demise, Race and Education in New Orleans traces the course of the city's education system from the colonial period to the start of school desegregation in 1960.
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Resisting Equality - The Citizens'' Council, 1954-1989

by Stephanie R. Rolph

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 Examines the history of the Citizens' Council, an organisation committed to coordinating opposition to desegregation and black voting rights. The book follows the Council from its establishment, through its expansion across America and its success in incorporating elements of its agenda into national politics, to its dissolution in 1989.
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Petroleum And Public Safety - Risk Management In The Gulf South, 1901-2015

by James B. Mcswain

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 Throughout the twentieth century, cities such as Houston, Galveston, New Orleans, and Mobile grappled with the safety hazards created by oil and gas industries. James McSwain reveals how these cities created standards based on technical, scientific, and engineering knowledge to devise politically workable ordinances.
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Resident Strangers - Immigrant Laborers In New South Alabama

by Jennifer E. Brooks

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 Immigrant laborers who came to the New South in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries found themselves poised uncomfortably between white employers and the Black working class, a liminal and often precarious position. Campaigns to recruit immigrants primarily aimed to suppress Black agency and mobility. If that failed, both planters and industrialists imagined that immigrants might replace Blacks entirely. Thus, white officials, citizens, and employers embraced immigrants when they acted in ways that sustained Jim Crow. However, when they directly challenged established political and economic power structures, immigrant laborers found themselves ostracized, jailed, or worse, by the New South order. Both industrial employers and union officials lauded immigrants’ hardworking and noble character when it suited their purposes, and both denigrated and racialized them when immigrant laborers acted independently. Jennifer E. Brooks’s Resident Strangers restores immigrant laborers to their place in the history of the New South, considering especially how various immigrant groups and individuals experienced their time in New South Alabama. Brooks utilizes convict records, censuses, regional and national newspapers, government documents, and oral histories to construct the story of immigrants in New South Alabama. The immigrant groups she focuses on appeared most often as laborers in the records, including the Chinese, southern Italians, and the diverse nationals of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, along with a sprinkling of others. Although recruitment crusades by Alabama’s employers and New South boosters typically failed to bring in the vast numbers of immigrants they had envisioned, significant populations from around the world arrived in industries and communities across the state, especially in the coal- and ore-mining district of Birmingham. Resident Strangers reveals that immigrant laborers’ presence and individual agency complicated racial categorization, disrupted labor relations, and diversified southern communities. It also presents a New South that was far from isolated from the forces at work across the nation or in the rest of the world. Immigrant laborers brought home to New South Alabama the turbulent world of empire building, deeply embedding the region in national and global networks of finance, trade, and labor migration.
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Gin, Jesus, And Jim Crow - Prohibition And The Transformation Of Racial And Religious Politics In The South

by Brendan J. J. Payne

26,43€ + 10% CARD

 In Gin, Jesus, and Jim Crow, Brendan J. J. Payne reveals how prohibition helped realign the racial and religious order in the South by linking restrictions on alcohol with political preaching and the disfranchisement of Black voters. While both sides invoked Christianity, prohibitionists redefined churches’ doctrines, practices, and political engagement. White prohibitionists initially courted Black voters in the 1880s but soon dismissed them as hopelessly wet and sought to disfranchise them, stoking fears of drunken Black men defiling white women in their efforts to reframe alcohol restriction as a means of racial control. Later, as the alcohol industry grew desperate, it turned to Black voters, many of whom joined the brewers to preserve their voting rights and maintain personal liberties. Tracking southern debates about alcohol from the 1880s through the 1930s, Payne shows that prohibition only retreated from the region once the racial and religious order it helped enshrine had been secured.
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Race, Crime, And Policing In The Jim Crow South - African Americans And Law Enforcement In Birmingham, Memphis, And New Orleans, 1920-1945

by Brandon T. Jett

26,43€ + 10% CARD

 Reveals previously unrecognized efforts by African Americans to use, manage, and exploit policing. In the process, Brandon Jett exposes a complex relationship, suggesting that while violence or the threat of violence shaped police and minority relations, it did not define all interactions.
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Disunited Nations - Us Foreign Policy, Anti-Americanism, And The Rise Of The New Right

by Sean Byrnes

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 Explores American reactions to hostile world opinion, as voiced in the United Nations by representatives of the Global South from 1970 to 1984. Sean Byrnes suggests this challenge had a significant impact on US policy and politics, shaping the rise of the New Right and neoliberal visions of the world economy.
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Race, Crime, And Policing In The Jim Crow South - African Americans And Law Enforcement In Birmingham, Memphis, And New Orleans, 1920-1945

by Brandon T. Jett

48,67€ + 10% CARD

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 reveals previously unrecognized efforts by African Americans to use, manage, and exploit policing. In the process, Brandon Jett exposes a complex relationship, suggesting that while violence or the threat of violence shaped police and minority relations, it did not define all interactions.
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Race, Crime, And Policing In The Jim Crow South - African Americans And Law Enforcement In Birmingham, Memphis, And New Orleans, 1920-1945

by Brandon T. Jett

26,43€ + 10% CARD

 Reveals previously unrecognized efforts by African Americans to use, manage, and exploit policing. In the process, Brandon Jett exposes a complex relationship, suggesting that while violence or the threat of violence shaped police and minority relations, it did not define all interactions.
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Race And Restoration - Churches Of Christ And The Black Freedom Struggle

by Barclay Key

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 The Churches of Christ offer a unique perspective for observing how Christian fellowship and human equality intersected during the civil rights era. In this study, Barclay Key reveals how racial attitudes and practices within individual congregations elude the simple categorizations often employed by historians.
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Petroleum And Public Safety - Risk Management In The Gulf South, 1901-2015

by James B. Mcswain

62,19€ + 10% CARD

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 Throughout the twentieth century, cities such as Houston, Galveston, New Orleans, and Mobile grappled with the safety hazards created by oil and gas industries. James McSwain reveals how these cities created standards based on technical, scientific, and engineering knowledge to devise politically workable ordinances.
ENGLISH

Race And Restoration - Churches Of Christ And The Black Freedom Struggle

by Barclay Key

26,43€ + 10% CARD

 The Churches of Christ offer a unique perspective for observing how Christian fellowship and human equality intersected during the civil rights era. In this study, Barclay Key reveals how racial attitudes and practices within individual congregations elude the simple categorizations often employed by historians.
ENGLISH

Creating A Progressive Commonwealth - Women Activists, Feminism, And The Politics Of Social Change In Virginia, 1970s-2000s

by Megan Taylor Shockley

26,43€ + 10% CARD

 Building upon the work of late twentieth-century scholars in the field of feminist studies, Megan Taylor Shockley provides an in-depth look at feminism in the modern US South. Shockley challenges the monolithic view of the region as a conservative bastion and argues that feminist advocates have provided crucial social progressive force.
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