During the civil rights movement, epic battles for justice were fought in the streets, at lunch counters, and in the classrooms of the American South. Just as many battles were waged, however, in the hearts and minds of ordinary white southerners whose world became unrecognizable to them. Jason Sokolas vivid and unprecedented account of white southernersa attitudes and actions, related in their own words, reveals in a new light the contradictory mixture of stubborn resistance and pragmatic acceptanceaas well as the startling and unexpected personal transformationsawith which they greeted the enforcement of legal equality. From the Trade Paperback edition.Xynidis was aquot;afraid if my place exists in the morning. . . . I didna#39;t sleep all night.aquot; The Seafarer still stood the next morning. but it resegregated. Wliite supremacists began to focus more energy on business owners who buckled under the Civilanbsp;...
Title | : | There Goes My Everything |
Author | : | Jason Sokol |
Publisher | : | Vintage - 2008-12-10 |
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