Southern Legacy. [The broadsword virtues -- Grandmother was emphatic -- Faith of our Fathers -- Like a member of the family -- Not much of a man if he hadn't -- Gentlemen, rise -- The case of Eddie Mack -- Clint ate corn pone -- Those damn Dagoes ]

Carter, Hodding, 1907-1972.

Verlag: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 1950., 1950

Beschreibung

[1st edition] ; v, 186 pp. ; 21 cm. ; LCCN: 50-5209 ; LC: F215; Dewey: 917.5 ; OCLC: 381608 ; light blue cloth with brown lettering ; no dustjacket ; spine sunned ; wear to covers ; Contents: The broadsword virtues -- Grandmother was emphatic -- Faith of our Fathers -- Like a member of the family -- Not much of a man if he hadn't -- Gentlemen, rise -- The case of Eddie Mack -- Clint ate corn pone -- Those damn Dagoes -- Just leave us alone -- The crazy-quilt pattern -- It's an ideal location - - The deeper wound -- Out of inquietude. ; "The editor and publisher of the Delta Democrat-Times liked a good fight. Using his little daily paper to battle for equality before the law and an end to mistreatment of black people, Hodding Carter took on the power structure of the state of Mississippi. Castigated by politicians, denounced by his fellow editors, threatened with economic reprisal and physical violence, he drew the wrath of everyone from the country club to the crossroads store. White Citizens Councils anathematized him. The Ku Klux Klan sent him threatening messages. What kind of a man was this who stuck to his guns - for a time he even kept a gun close by - for what he believed, in the face of anger and vitriol, detestation and denunciation?.As a youth sent off to college in Maine, he was an outspoken white supremacist; he began changing his mind only when he cameback home to the South to live. Nor was his battle for racial justice in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s his first fight against heavy odds: in the early 1930s, as editor of a tiny newspaper in Hammond, Louisiana, he fought the Louisiana Kingfish, Huey Long, and his powerful machine. Nor did Carter confine his writing to newspaper journalism. He wrote books, magazine articles, history, novels, poetry."--Ann Waldron ; G. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 4923

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Southern Legacy. [The broadsword virtues -- ...

Verlag: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 1950.

Erscheinungsdatum: 1950

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Good

Auflage: 1st Edition

Art des Buches: Book