Defying Dixie - by Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>In a dramatic narrative, Gilmore deftly shows how the Southern movement for social justice unfolded against national and global developments, gaining focus and finally arriving at a narrow but effective legal strategy for securing desegregation and political rights.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>The civil rights movement that looms 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 rich history of that early movement introduces us to a contentious mix of home-grown radicals, labor activists, newspaper editors, black workers, and intellectuals who employed every strategy imaginable to take Dixie down. 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.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>[Employing] a gift for vivid description, [Gilmore] introduces scores of dedicated, colorful and sometimes eccentric dreamers and agitators.-- "New York Times Book Review"<br><br>A monumental work...for those desiring a sweeping yet detailed and informed account of the radical side of our early civil rights movement, <em>Defying Dixie</em> will prove extremely enlightening.-- "Charlotte Observer"<br><br>Emotionally poignant...[Gilmore] universalizes the impulses and actions that define the struggle for racial equality in America.-- "News and Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)"<br><br>Gilmore's fluid prose brings to life these passionate yet forgotten battles.-- "Memphis Commercial Appeal"<br><br>Painstakingly researched and vividly told, <em>Defying Dixie</em> is, by any standard, a formidable achievement. Gilmore forces us to rethink the history of the civil rights movement and the people, often unheralded at the margins, who made it.-- "Los Angeles Times"<br><br>Rich...powerful and profound.-- "New York Times"<br>
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