A Southerner Discovers the South
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Chapel Hill Regionalists
Charles F. DeBardeleben
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debt peonage
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Delta Cooperative Farm
Depression-era South
Dicksonia plantation
documentary expression in the 1930s
Donald Davidson
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Franklin Roosevelt and the "no. 1 economic problem"
H. L. Mitchell
Jonathan Daniels
Jonathan Worth Daniels
labor conflict in Birmingham
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long civil rights movement
Lowndes County
Margaret Mitchell
Nashville Agrarians
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race relations in the 1930s
Scottsboro case
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South in the Great Depression
southern liberalism
Southern Policy Association
Southern Tenant Farmers Union
Tennessee Valley Authority
Willie Sue Blagden
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- ISBN 9781469659213
- Format: Paperback
- Weight: 333g
- Dimensions: 155 x 233mm
- Publication Date: 28 Feb 2020
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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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In Discovering the South historian Jennifer Ritterhouse pieces together Daniels's unpublished notes from his tour along with his published writings and a wealth of archival evidence to put this one man's journey through a South in transition into a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.
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.
Jennifer Ritterhouse is professor of history at George Mason University and the author of Growing Up Jim Crow: How Black and White Southern Children Learned Race.
