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Product Description: White supremacy shaped all aspects of post-Civil War southern life, yet its power was never complete or total. The form of segregation and subjection nicknamed Jim Crow constantly had to remake itself over time even as white southern politicians struggled to extend its grip...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Portrays the lynching of Sonny Clark through the eyes of Sheriff Jeff McCurtain, who did nothing to disperse an angry mob; Harvey Glenn, who turned Clark in; and Katy Barlow, who withdrew a false charge of rape only after Clark was dead

Product Description: In this book, Bryant Simon brings to life the politics of white South Carolina millhands during the first half of the twentieth century. His revealing and moving account explores how this group of southern laborers thought about and participated in politics and public power...read more

Product Description: In this book, Bryant Simon brings to life the politics of white South Carolina millhands during the first half of the twentieth century. His revealing and moving account explores how this group of southern laborers thought about and participated in politics and public power...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: 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 catalog in Memphis, and plotting insurrection against whites at every turn...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)