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Race and Rumors of Race : The American South in the Early Forties
Race and Rumors of Race The American South in the Early Forties
Author: Howard W. Odum, Bryant Simon
In the early 1940s, rumors of impending and actual race wars circulated furiously among white Southerners. Apparently with the aid of first lady Eleanor Roosevelt, liberals, Yankees, New Dealers, and "bad niggers," once docile African-Americans were stockpiling ice picks in Charleston, ordering carton loads of pistols and rifles from the Sears c...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780801857577
ISBN-10: 0801857570
Publication Date: 8/20/1997
Pages: 288
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Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Book Type: Paperback
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