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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 tha
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A revisionist history of the radical transformation of the American South during the Civil War examines the economic, social and political deconstruction and re
Radio Free Dixie
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This book tells the remarkable story of Robert F. Williams--one of the most influential black activists of the generation that toppled Jim Crow and forever alte
The Dixiecrat Revolt and the End of the Solid South, 1932-1968
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In 1948, a group of conservative white southerners formed the States' Rights Democratic Party, soon nicknamed the "Dixiecrats," and chose Strom Thurmond as thei