About this title: The civil rights movement of 1950s and 1960s America 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. In a dramatic narrative, "Defying Dixie" shows how the movement unfolded against national and global developments, gaining focus and ...
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Edition: First Edition, 1st P
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.
Date Published: 1/17/2008
ISBN-13:9780393062441ISBN:0393062449
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
Date Published: 2009-08-10
ISBN-13:9780393335323ISBN:0393335321
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co
Date Published: 2009
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
Date Published: 2008-01-30
ISBN-13:9780393062441ISBN:0393062449
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co
Date Published: 2008
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Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780393062441ISBN:0393062449
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Edition: Reprint
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780393335323ISBN:0393335321
Description: New. 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 p... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Ww Norton & Co
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780393335323ISBN:0393335321
Description: New. The civil rights movement of 1950s and 1960s America 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. This book shows how the movement unfolded... read more
"I picked up this book randomly when I saw it in the library, and it turned out to be a worthwhile read. Gilmore, a white female professor from North Carolina, surveys the "radical roots of civil rights" through the efforts of the Communist Party in the South during the 1920s through 1940s.
Gilmore tells the story by focusing on a few individual black radicals who have been forgotten by history, especially Lovett Fort-Whiteman and Pauli Murray.
Whiteman, an extravagant early supporter of the Soviet Union, founded some of the first communist organizations for African Americans, before being scared out of the country by the feds, becoming a darling in the Soviet Union, then ultimately winding up in one of Stalin's gulags in Siberia, where he worked/starved to death.
Murray had more luck, despite being a transgendered black woman in the South in the 1940s. With a bold attitude, she attempted to integrate various institutions, like the University of North Carolina Law program, and although she herself was not successful in these efforts, her example paved the way for future victories within the Black Freedom Movement.
We also learn quite a bit about Langston Hughes, Thurgood Marshall, A. Philip Randolph, Max Yergan, and many other heroic characters who fought early and often for equality in the apartheid South.
More interesting to me though was what I learned about movement strategy, for example we explore how the first integrated unions in the South scared the bejesus out of the capitalists, or what it meant for the Communist Party to bring the country's attention to the case of the Scottsboro "Boys", or how the "Popular Front" strategy of allying with liberals succeeded, and failed.
The writing is interesting, but could be more purposeful. Defying Dixie focuses probably too much on the Communists, and not on other radicals, but still this book really clarified for me important stuff like the Depression, the South in the 1930s, and the early Civil Rights Movement."
"Really engaging, and I learned a huge amount about the underpinnings of what we think of as the "civil rights movement" of the 1950s and 60s...the struggle was longer, more complicated, and more filled with interesting personalities than we are ever taught in standard history courses. The organizing tactics, and the many decades of failures and successes gave me a lot of perspective on the social justice work I do now."
"This book looked at the role that the Communist Party played in organizing for racial and economic justice in the South during the first half of the 20th century. It ties together threads from many different lives, and connects to events in the Soviet Union, South Africa, Ethiopia and more. This is a rich history that really gives perspective on who was organizing what and why during that period."
"Fascinating information about the history of the African American left, but there's no argument and it's very difficult to get past the flowery language. It seems like she's trying to write for a popular audience by condescending to them with creepy cliches. Very strange."
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