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Speak Now Against the Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South
Winner:Robert F. Kennedy Book Award -Grand Prize (1995)
Speak Now Against the Day is the astonishing, little-known story of the Southerners who, in the generation before the Supreme Court outlawed school segregation and before Rosa Parks refused to surrender her seat on a Montgomery bus, challenged the validity of a white ruling class and a "separate but equal" division of the races. The voices of the dissenters, although present throughout the South's troubled history, grew louder with Roosevelt's election in 1932. An increasing number of men and women who grappled daily with the economic and social woes of the South began forcefully and courageously to speak and to work toward the day when the South - and the nation - would deliver on the historic promises in the country's founding documents. This is the story of those brave prophets - the ministers, writers, educators, journalists, social activists, union members, and politicians, black and white, who pointed the way to higher ground.
Book Details
- Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
- Publish Date: Nov 6th, 1995
- Pages: 768
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 9.38in - 6.12in - 1.99in - 2.46lb
- EAN: 9780807845578
- Categories: • Civil Rights• United States - 20th Century
About the Author
Egerton, John: - John Egerton (1935-2013), an independent nonfiction writer, wrote extensively on his native South. He is author of more than a dozen books, including The Americanization of Dixie and Southern Food: At Home, on the Road, in History.
Praise for this book
"John Egerton has brilliantly uncovered the lost chapter of the civil rights movement. . . . Speak Now Against the Day will be the standard history of the early civil rights movement against which all others will be measured." -- Boston Globe
"A grand achievement." -- Raleigh News & Observer
"A gift to the nation [and a] . . . heartbreaking but heroic story." -- Louisville Courier-Journal
"No school, library or home is complete without a copy of this important, inspiring and highly readable narrative." -- Nashville Banner
"Superb. . . . [A] remarkable, monumental book." -- Cleveland Plain-Dealer