TY - JOUR
AU - Ownby, Ted
AB - Book Reviews 1531 isted in social welfare provision to confirm no- erty, and the Politics of Alienation in New Or- tions of southern distinctiveness. The New leans’s Early Great Society” and Susan Young- Deal and Beyond similarly affirms regional dis- blood Ashmore’s “More than a Head Start: tinctiveness while connecting the develop- The War on Poverty, Catholic Charities, and ment of social welfare institutions in the Civil Rights in Mobile, Alabama, 1965– 1970.” Robert R. Korstad and James L. Lelou- South to the growth of the federal welfare dis tell the story of the North Carolina Fund, state. Taken together, these two volumes pro- an innovative antipoverty program of the vide us with a substantial look at a region 1960s, in “Citizen-Soldiers: The North Caro- where social welfare has been generally over- lina Volunteers and the South’s War on Pov- looked by historians. erty.” Marsha S. Rose explores private philan- Following the editor’s brief introduction, thropy in “Southern Feminism and Social this collection of ten original essays is divided Change: Sallie Bingham and the Kentucky into two sections. In part 1, five essays exam- Foundation for Women.” ine the impact of New Deal programs on the Historians of social 
TI - Sons of Mississippi: A Story of Race and Its Legacy. By Paul Hendrickson. (New York: Knopf, 2003. xii, 343 pp. $26.00, isbn 0-375-40461-9.)
JF - The Journal of American History
DO - 10.2307/3660486
DA - 2004-03-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/sons-of-mississippi-a-story-of-race-and-its-legacy-by-paul-hendrickson-dQZhf8pf4Q
SP - 1531
EP - 1532
VL - 90
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -