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Long before the Montgomery bus boycott ushered in the modern civil rights movement, black and white southerners struggled to forge interracial democracy in America. This book examines the most successful interracial coalition in the 19th-century South, Virginia's Readjuster Party, and uncovers a surprising degree of fluidity in postemancipation southern politics. Melding social, cultural, and political history, the author chronicles the Readjusters' efforts to foster political cooperation across the colour line

Long before the Montgomery bus boycott ushered in the modern civil rights movement, black and white southerners struggled to forge interracial democracy in America. This book examines the most successful interracial coalition in the 19th-century South, Virginia's Readjuster Party, and uncovers a surprising degree of fluidity in postemancipation southern politics. Melding social, cultural, and political history, the author chronicles the Readjusters' efforts to foster political cooperation across the colour line.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1. "The naacp Organized-Why Not You," 1954-1960 -- CHAPTER 2. "Our Most Historical Moment," 1962-1963 -- CHAPTER 3. "Now a Single Shot Can Do It," 1964-1966 -- CHAPTER 4. "More Than a Mere Word of Promise," 1966-1968 -- CHAPTER 5. "Depths of Disillusionment," 1968-1970 -- CHAPTER 6. Swann Song, 1970-1973 -- Epilogue. "If Ever Is Going to Happen": 1973-2017 -- Notes -- Index.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- INTRODUCTION. An Enduring Black Struggle for Equality in Baltimore -- PART I -- CHAPTER 1. Jim Crowed: Baltimore, 1890s-1910s -- CHAPTER 2. N ational Struggle, Local Agenda: Community against Jim Crow, 1900-1936 -- CHAPTER 3. "We Have to Fight Segregation before We Can Get to Hitler": Transformation in Depression and War, 1936-1945 -- PART II -- CHAPTER 4. "A Conspicuous Absurdity": Confronting Jim Crow Housing and Recreation, 1941-1955 -- CHAPTER 5. Interracialists and the Struggle: Getting Back Downtown, 1946-1959 -- CHAPTER 6. "This Beginning Will Awaken Others": Baltimore Students Activate for Desegregation, 1948-1959 -- CONCLUSION. "We Were Fighting against White Supremacy": The Struggle at the End of the Fifties -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y.

Examines the relocation of the New England textile industry to the piedmont South between 1880 and 1959, through the example of the Massachusetts-based Dwight Manufacturing Company. Provides an informative historic reference point to current debates about the continuous relocation of capital to low-wage, largely unregulated labor markets worldwide.