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Another "Great Migration": From Region to Race in Southern Liberalism, 1938-1945

Another "Great Migration": From Region to Race in Southern Liberalism, 1938-1945 ESSAY Another "Great Migration' 1938-1945 ?? From Region to Race in Southern Liberalism, by David L. Carlton and Peter A. Coclanis he history of the American South since World War II has been one of numerous wrenching changes, but in both the popular and the historical imagination, one has overshadowed them all: the transformation of southern race relations." The Civil Rights movement has become the moral center of postwar southern history, a spiritual drama that for nearly two generations has defined the relationship of the South and its people to the larger meaning ofAmerican history. Given the Civil Rights movement's centrality to the southern story in our time, it is hardly surprising that southern history prior to the movement is nonetheless usually interpreted in light of this event, particularly the history of southern white liberalism. In the postwar era, commitment to the elimination of racial injustice became the very definition of a "southern white liberal," and the centrality of racial issues to our own time has been projected onto the past. The major literature on pre-World War II southern liberalism generally takes commitment to an integrated society as the basic criterion for assessing liberal credentials and usually frames http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Southern Cultures University of North Carolina Press

Another "Great Migration": From Region to Race in Southern Liberalism, 1938-1945

Carlton, David L. (David Lee)
Southern Cultures , Volume 3 (4) – Jan 4, 1997
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ESSAY Another "Great Migration' 1938-1945 ?? From Region to Race in Southern Liberalism, by David L. Carlton and Peter A. Coclanis he history of the American South since World War II has been one of numerous wrenching changes, but in both the popular and the historical imagination, one has overshadowed them all: the transformation of southern race relations." The Civil Rights movement has become the moral center of postwar southern history, a spiritual drama that for nearly two generations has defined the relationship of the South and its people to the larger meaning ofAmerican history. Given the Civil Rights movement's centrality to the southern story in our time, it is hardly surprising that southern history prior to the movement is nonetheless usually interpreted in light of this event, particularly the history of southern white liberalism. In the postwar era, commitment to the elimination of racial injustice became the very definition of a "southern white liberal," and the centrality of racial issues to our own time has been projected onto the past. The major literature on pre-World War II southern liberalism generally takes commitment to an integrated society as the basic criterion for assessing liberal credentials and usually frames

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Published: Jan 4, 1997

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