false 796978 1 <B>A groundbreaking history of the Southern movement for social justice that gave birth to civil rights.</B><BR><BR>The civil rights movement that loomed 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 contentious mix of home-grown radicals, labor activists, newspaper editors, black workers, and intellectuals employed every strategy imaginable to take Dixie down, from a ludicrous attempt to organize black workers with a stage production of Pushkin&#151;in Russian&#151;to the courageous fight of striking workers against police and corporate violence in Gastonia in 1929. 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. Little-known heroes abound in a book that will recast our understanding of the most important social movement in twentieth-century America. 782948 7 1 2008 Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950 total:19|5:7|4:6|3:5|2:1|1:0| 19 76 65 6 4 0 false false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Oct 26 17:50:58 -0700 2008 Wed Dec 03 15:54:32 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Dec 15 16:38:56 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 15 16:39:01 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Sat Jan 05 07:37:07 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 05 07:41:59 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Mar 21 17:09:04 -0700 2008 Tue May 13 20:24:12 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Feb 16 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 13 17:48:31 -0800 2008 Sat Feb 16 18:37:57 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2 0 false false Fri Jan 04 18:56:25 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 22 16:48:08 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Mon Nov 09 19:42:18 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 09 19:42:18 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Fri Oct 02 18:33:18 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 02 18:33:18 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Fri Sep 25 11:17:11 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 25 11:17:11 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Sep 05 12:35:02 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 05 12:35:02 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Wed Aug 19 19:22:13 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 19 19:22:13 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Aug 14 10:06:50 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 14 10:06:50 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Aug 14 09:37:39 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 14 09:37:39 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Jul 10 10:40:30 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 10 10:41:04 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Mon Jul 06 11:54:40 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 06 11:54:40 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Jun 13 23:05:38 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 13 23:05:38 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Jun 13 21:50:45 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 14 18:03:10 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun Jun 07 11:44:47 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 07 11:45:00 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Sat Jun 13 09:54:19 -0700 2009 Fri May 22 09:36:26 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 13 09:54:19 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Apr 11 06:08:05 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 11 06:08:05 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=796978