Archipelagoes of my South : episodes in the shaping of a region, 1830-1965 / J. Mills Thornton III.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Thornton, J. Mills, 1943- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Tuscaloosa, Alabama : The University of Alabama Press, [2016]
Subjects:
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Civil rights > United States > History.
Southern States > History > 1865-1951.
Southern States > History > 1951-
Civil rights.
Southern States.
United States.
Since 1865
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:xiii, 230 pages : illustrations
Format: Book
Contents:
  • The ethic of subsistence and the origins of southern secession
  • Fiscal policy and the failure of radical reconstruction in the Lower South
  • Alabama's presidential reconstruction legislature
  • Alabama emancipation in the courts
  • Redemption and the Jews in Montgomery
  • Senator J. Thomas Heflin and the Expulsion Movement of 1929
  • Hugo Black and the Golden Age
  • The structure of white supremacy in Alabama in the era of World War II
  • Rosa Parks and the law
  • The Montgomery Freedom Rider Riots of 1961.