Discovering the South
During the Great Depression, the American South was not merely "the nation's number one economic problem," as President Franklin Roosevelt declared. It was also a battlefield on which forces for and against social change were starting to form. For a white southern liberal like Jonathan Daniels, edit...
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| description | During the Great Depression, the American South was not merely "the nation's number one economic problem," as President Franklin Roosevelt declared. It was also a battlefield on which forces for and against social change were starting to form. For a white southern liberal like Jonathan Daniels, editor of the Raleigh News and Observer, it was a fascinating moment to explore. Attuned to culture as well as politics, Daniels knew the true South lay somewhere between Erskine Caldwell's Tobacco Road and Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind. On May 5, 1937, he set out to find it, driving thousands of miles in his trusty Plymouth and ultimately interviewing even Mitchell herself. In Discovering the South historian Jennifer Ritterhouse pieces together Daniels's unpublished notes from his tour along with his published writings and a wealth of archival evidence to put this one man's journey through a South in transition into a larger context. Daniels's well chosen itinerary brought him face to face with the full range of political and cultural possibilities in the South of the 1930s, from New Deal liberalism and social planning in the Tennessee Valley Authority, to Communist agitation in the Scottsboro case, to planters' and industrialists' reactionary worldview and repressive violence. The result is a lively narrative of black and white southerners fighting for and against democratic social change at the start of the nation's long civil rights era. For more information on this book, see www.discoveringthesouth.org. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1217562025-03-20T20:13:21Z Discovering the South Ritterhouse, Jennifer Jonathan Daniels Jonathan Worth Daniels A Southerner Discovers the South Depression-era South South in the Great Depression southern liberalism race relations in the 1930s long civil rights movement documentary expression in the 1930s Chapel Hill Regionalists Southern Policy Association Tennessee Valley Authority Scottsboro case Donald Davidson Nashville Agrarians Southern Tenant Farmers Union Delta Cooperative Farm Willie Sue Blagden H. L. Mitchell Dicksonia plantation debt peonage Lowndes County, Alabama Charles F. DeBardeleben labor conflict in Birmingham Margaret Mitchell Franklin Roosevelt and the "no. 1 economic problem" During the Great Depression, the American South was not merely "the nation's number one economic problem," as President Franklin Roosevelt declared. It was also a battlefield on which forces for and against social change were starting to form. For a white southern liberal like Jonathan Daniels, editor of the Raleigh News and Observer, it was a fascinating moment to explore. Attuned to culture as well as politics, Daniels knew the true South lay somewhere between Erskine Caldwell's Tobacco Road and Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind. On May 5, 1937, he set out to find it, driving thousands of miles in his trusty Plymouth and ultimately interviewing even Mitchell herself. In Discovering the South historian Jennifer Ritterhouse pieces together Daniels's unpublished notes from his tour along with his published writings and a wealth of archival evidence to put this one man's journey through a South in transition into a larger context. Daniels's well chosen itinerary brought him face to face with the full range of political and cultural possibilities in the South of the 1930s, from New Deal liberalism and social planning in the Tennessee Valley Authority, to Communist agitation in the Scottsboro case, to planters' and industrialists' reactionary worldview and repressive violence. The result is a lively narrative of black and white southerners fighting for and against democratic social change at the start of the nation's long civil rights era. For more information on this book, see www.discoveringthesouth.org. 2023-11-17T08:35:21Z 2023-11-17T08:35:21Z 2023-10-19T07:43:37Z 2017 book ONIX_20231019_9798890850867_4 OCN: 1175636533 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/76865 9798890850867 9781469630960 9781469659213 9781469630946 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/121756 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/76865/1/9798890850867.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/76865/1/9798890850867.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/76865/1/9798890850867.pdf The University of North Carolina Press South American Publishing University of South Carolina Press The University of North Carolina Press 10.5149/9781469630953_Ritterhouse 10.5149/9781469630953_Ritterhouse f46e5319-8d09-4c63-b9f2-a13480694ab4 18fbfe3b-3f91-4cf7-b6b9-18d696cb9331 4a154a96-4e84-4b2b-8cae-b383b6ddde34 National Endowment for the Humanities 0314e571-4102-4526-b014-3ed8f2d6750a 9798890850867 9781469630960 9781469659213 9781469630946 The University of North Carolina Press 384 Chapel Hill [...] open access |
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