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The Shame of Southern Politics: Essays and Speeches

The Shame of Southern Politics: Essays and Speeches

Dunbar, Leslie

Hardcover

20th Century United States HistoryGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesSocial Movements

ISBN10: 0813122619
ISBN13: 9780813122618
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: Oct 31 2002
Pages: 208
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.77 Width: 6.06 Depth: 9.48
Language: English

As a leader of the Southern Regional Council in the early 1960s, and later as executive director of the Field Foundation, Leslie Dunbar's advocacy and behind-the-scenes organizing made him one of the most significant (but least recognized) people in the civil rights movement. His essays and speeches often helped set the agenda. They also continue to offer a prophetic voice in our struggle to create a more humane and fully integrated America.

The Shame of Southern Politics gathers for the first time fourteen of Dunbar's essays and speeches on the courage and values of the southern civil rights movement. Dunbar's selected writings, ranging from the classic 1961 essay The Annealing of the South to a post-September 11th meditation, give eloquent voice to the best of America's liberal tradition. A new essay entitled 1968 offers Dunbar's unique take on that transformational year.

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