Simple Decency & Common Sense

"A factual record assembled in depth, this is an important contribution to the archives of integration and nondiscrimination." -- Publishers Weekly"... well-researched and informative... " -- Journal of Southern History"[Reed's] book brings a fascinating band of progressive Southerners into focus, some of them for the first time, and follows them from the late thirties into the sixties. They bear following, and remembering. So does this book." -- Southern Changes

LINDA REED is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Houston.

Chronology
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
A New Answer to the Old Questions ofSouthern Proverty and Backwardness
How the southern Conference Movement
Operated: Administration, Finances,Membership, and Literature
Alienation, Fear, and Red-baiting
Making Poll Tax a National Issue
Southern Liberalism and the Search forRacial Justice during World War II
Critical Years for SCHW
The Perpetuation of an SCHW Legacy
SCEF and the Challenge of Desegregation
White Southern Backlash and the High
Price for a Just Cause
Conclusion
Bibliographical Essay
Appendix
Notes
Index
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