Speak Now against the Day : The Generation before the Civil Rights Movement in the South (Chapel Hill Books)

Egerton, John

The University of North Carolina Press（1995/11発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 768 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780807845578
• DDC分類 323.092275

基本説明

New in paperback. Originally published in 1994, tells the compeling story of the earliest calls for desegregation and racial justice in the South.

Full Description

The compelling story of the earliest calls for desegregation and racial justice in the South. ""Make room on your library shelf . . . for John Egerton's magnificent Speak Now Against the Day . His book is a stunning achievement: a sprawling, engrossing, deeply moving account of those Southerners, black and white, who raised their voices to challenge the South's racial mores. . . . [This] is an eloquent and passionate book, and . . . one we cannot afford to forget.""--Charles B. Dew, New York Times Book Review ""A rich and inspiring story. . . . [Egerton] has uncovered a buried treasure.""--Studs Terkel ""[A] superb book, measured but eloquent.""--Dan T. Carter, Washington Post Book World |The traditional understanding of American constitutional law is that the Revolution caused a shift in the conception of the constitution from merely a description of governmental roles to a set of restrictions on the power of the state. Hulsebosch complic