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Before the Civil Rights movement, southern liberal journalists played a crucial role in shaping southern thought on race and racism. John Kneebone presents a richly detailed intellectual history of southern racial liberalism between World War I and World War II by examining the works of five leading southern journalists -- Gerald W. Johnson, Baltimore Evening Sun ; George Fort Milton, Chattanooga News ; Virginius Dabney, Richmond Times-Dispatch ; Hodding Carter, Greenville (Miss.) Delta Democrat-Times ; and Ralph McGill, Atlanta Constitution . The South's leading liberal journalists came from varied backgrounds and lived in different regions of the South, but all had one characteristic in as public advocates of southern liberalism, each spoke as a southerner with deep roots in the southern past. Yet their editorials were not intended solely for local audiences; they wrote essays for national and regional journals of opinion as well, and each of these men published important books on the South and its history. Through their writings, they gained reputations throughout the country as articulate spokesmen for southern liberalism. Their essays, editorials, books, and letters provide ri

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Author

John T. Kneebone

Publisher

The University of North Carolina Press

Published

1985

Language

EN

ISBN

9780807816608

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Sociology, History, Literary Fiction