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Fight Against Fear: Southern Jews and Black Civil Rights (review)

Fight Against Fear: Southern Jews and Black Civil Rights (review) the Civil War" to the South. Montgomery in the Good War, by Wesley Phillips Newton, a military historian and Professor Emeritus at Auburn University, as well as a Montgomery native and participant in the conflict, is inconclusive on this score. In fact, although Newton does a fine job of evoking the responses to the war and its impact on a broad cross-section of the city's population, his focus is narrow. The book is less about Montgomery during the war than about the lives of some Montgomerians, black and white, men and women, who served in the "Good War." Using primarily personal interviews and newspaper accounts, Newton describes how the war changed the outlook of the city's younger generation and, as a consequence, their expectations of what postwar life would be like. The city they returned to from overseas or from other parts of the country was essentially unchanged, however, particularly in its social and racial segmentation. How and why white Montgomerians never made the connection between the fight against fascism abroad and racial discrimination at home remains unexplained. What is most evident from Newton's work is that the armed forces operated as a catalyst for racial change, even http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Southern Cultures University of North Carolina Press

Fight Against Fear: Southern Jews and Black Civil Rights (review)

McGraw, Eliza R. L.
Southern Cultures , Volume 8 (4) – Nov 27, 2002
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the Civil War" to the South. Montgomery in the Good War, by Wesley Phillips Newton, a military historian and Professor Emeritus at Auburn University, as well as a Montgomery native and participant in the conflict, is inconclusive on this score. In fact, although Newton does a fine job of evoking the responses to the war and its impact on a broad cross-section of the city's population, his focus is narrow. The book is less about Montgomery during the war than about the lives of some Montgomerians, black and white, men and women, who served in the "Good War." Using primarily personal interviews and newspaper accounts, Newton describes how the war changed the outlook of the city's younger generation and, as a consequence, their expectations of what postwar life would be like. The city they returned to from overseas or from other parts of the country was essentially unchanged, however, particularly in its social and racial segmentation. How and why white Montgomerians never made the connection between the fight against fascism abroad and racial discrimination at home remains unexplained. What is most evident from Newton's work is that the armed forces operated as a catalyst for racial change, even

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Published: Nov 27, 2002

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