An American Heretic, 1897-1983
Paperback
Publication Date: 30/07/1992
I read this book based on my reading of General Walker and the Murder of President Kennedy by Dr. Jeffry Caulfield. As portrayed in the Caulfield book, Dombrowski was in the eye of the segregationist hurricane which swept the South in the 1950's and 1960's following the Brown decision by the Supreme Court. This book gives a different perspective on the civil rights movement in the South. Such classics as Where Rebels Roost by Susan Klopfer and Gothic Politics in the Deep South by Robert Sherrill tend to give a condescending attitude toward the South. By contrast, Dombrowski describes a different version of events, a version which shows that the "behind the scenes" activities for Southern liberalization were very methodical and proceeded at a businesslike pace and with very steady progress all the way from the New Deal right up until the more radical 1970's. The book makes a case that, if there were actually such a thing as The New South, then Dombrowski had a very strong case for its paternity.Dombrowski, as many may already know, had close personal links to Justice Hugo Black of Alabama who was himself a pioneer of a more open-minded attitude to the race problem in the South.
- ISBN:
- 9780870497421
- 9780870497421
- Category:
- Biography: general
- Format:
- Paperback
- Publication Date:
- 30-07-1992
- Publisher:
- University of Tennessee Press
- Country of origin:
- United States
- Pages:
- 368
- Dimensions (mm):
- 228x154x22mm
- Weight:
- 0.46kg
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