Toward the meeting of the waters : currents in the civil rights movement of South Carolina during the twentieth century / edited by Winfred B. Moore Jr. and Orville Vernon Burton.

Other author Moore, Winfred B., 1949-
Other author Burton, Orville Vernon.
Format Book
Publication InfoColumbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, ©2008.
Descriptionxxiv, 470 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Subjects
African Americans--Civil rights. --South Carolina. --History. --20th century.
African Americans--Segregation. --South Carolina. --History. --20th century.
Civil rights movements--South Carolina. --History. --20th century.
African American civil rights workers--South Carolina. --History. --20th century.
Racism against Black people--South Carolina. --History. --20th century.
Lynching--South Carolina. --History. --20th century.
South Carolina--Race relations. --History. --20th century.
South Carolina--Politics and government. --20th century.

Contents pt. 1. Governors: From defiance to moderation : South Carolina governors and racial change / Tony Badger. Comments / Ernest F. Hollings, John C. West. Questions and answers -- pt. 2. Aggressors: Lynching in the outer coastal plain region of South Carolina and the origins of African American collective action, 1901-1910 / Terence R. Finnegan. Conflicting expectations : white and Black anticipations of opportunities in World War I-era South Carolina / Janet G. Hudson. An "ominous defiance" : the Lowman lynchings of 1926 / Elizabeth Robeson. The civil right not to be lynched : state law, government, and citizen response to the killing of Willie Earle (1947) / William Gravely. This magic moment : when the Ku Klux Klan tried to kill rhythm and blues music in South Carolina / Frank Beacham -- pt. 3. Reformers: Mr. NAACP : Levi G. Byrd and the remaking of the NAACP in state and nation, 1917-1960 / Peter F. Lau. The impact of 1940s civil rights activism on the state's 1960s civil rights scene / Wim Roefs. Seeds in unlikely soil : the Briggs v. Elliott school segregation case / Orville Vernon Burton, Beatrice Burton, and Simon Appleford. Five days in May : freedom riding in the Carolinas / Raymond Arsenault. The developmental leadership of Septima Clark, 1954-1967 / Stephen L. Preskill -- pt. 4. Resisters: Memories and forebodings : the fight to preserve the white Democratic primary in South Carolina, 1944-1950 / James O. Farmer. Could history repeat itself? : the prospects for a second Reconstruction in post-World War II South Carolina / Robert R. Korstad. The White Citizens' Councils of Orangeburg County, South Carolina / John W. White. "Integration with (relative) dignity" : the desegregation of Clemson College and George A. McMillan's article at forty / M. Ron Cox Jr. Memory, history, and the desegregation of Greenville, South Carolina / Stephen O'Neill. Schooling and white supremacy : the African-American struggle for educational equality and access in South Carolina, 1945-1970 / R. Scott Baker -- pt. 5. Retrospectives: Briggs v. Elliott a half century later / John Hope Franklin. Questions and answers. Voices from the civil rights movement in South Carolina / Charles F. McDrew. The Orangeburg massacre / Cleveland L. Sellers Jr. "We're not there yet" : Orangeburg, 1968-2003 / William C. Hine. The economics of the civil rights revolution / Gavin Wright. Civil rights and politics in South Carolina : the perspective of one lifetime, 1940-2003 / Dan Carter. How far we have come--how far we still have to go / Charles Joyner.
Abstract Brings together voices of leading historians alongside recollections from central participants to provide the first comprehensive history of the civil rights movement as experienced by black and white South Carolinians. --from publisher descriptioin
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2008018604
ISBN9781570037559 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN1570037558 (cloth : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks E185.93.S7 T69 2008 ✔ Available Place Hold