Southern Dissent
Edited by Stanley Harrold and Randall M. Miller, ST JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITYStanley Harrold
sharrold@scsu.edu
Randall M. Miller
ST JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY
DEPT OF HISTORY
5600 CITY AVENUE
PHILADELPHIA, PA 19131
miller@sju.edu
There are 29 books in this series.
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The Changing South of Gene Patterson celebrates the work of one of America's most influential journalists who wrote in a time and place of dramatic social and political upheaval. The editor of the Atlanta Constitution from 1960 through 1968, Patterson wrote directly to his fellow white southerners every day, working to persuade them to change their ways. His words were so inspirational that he was asked by Walter Cronkite to read his most famous column, about the Birmingham church bombing, live on the CBS Evening News.
Wayne Lee examines how a scoiety shapes, directs, restrains, understands, and reacts to violence, with particular attention to riot and war in 18th-century North Carolina.
Degler argues that if one is to understand who southerners were and are today, southern dissent of the 19th century must be understood and appreciated, since those years shaped southern ideas, customs, and values. This book