The Door of Hope: Republican Presidents and the First Southern Strategy, 1877-1933

About the Author, Further Reading

Edward O. Frantz is associate professor of history at the University of Indianapolis. His publications include “Defining Eisenhower’s America: War, Power and Race Relations, 1941–1961,” in America, War, and Power: Defining the State, 1775–2005, edited by A. James Fuller and Lawrence Sondhaus (Routledge, 2007). New Perspectives on the History of the South Edited by John David Smith, Charles H. Stone Distinguished Professor of American History University of North Carolina at Charlotte “In the Country of the Enemy”: The Civil War Reports of a Massachusetts Corporal, edited by William C. Harris (1999) The Wild East: A Biography of the Great Smoky Mountains, by Margaret L. Brown (2000) Crime, Sexual Violence, and Clemency: Florida’s Pardon Board and Penal System in the Progressive Era, by Vivien M. L. Miller (2000) The New South’s New Frontier: A Social History of Economic Development in Southwestern North Carolina, by Stephen Wallace Taylor (2001) Redefining the Color Line: Black Activism in Little Rock, Arkansas, 1940–1970, by John A. Kirk (2002) The Southern Dream of a Caribbean Empire, 1854–1861, by Robert E. May (2002) Forging a Common Bond: Labor and Environmental Activism during the BASF Lockout, by Timothy J. Minchin (2003) Dixie’s Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture, by Karen L. Cox (2003) The Other War of 1812: The Patriot War and the American Invasion of Spanish East Florida, by James G. Cusick (2003) “Lives Full of Struggle and Triumph”: Southern Women, Their Institutions and Their Communities, edited by Bruce L. Clayton and John A. Salmond (2003) German-Speaking Officers in the United States Colored Troops, 1863–1867, by Martin W. Öfele (2004) Southern Struggles: The Southern Labor Movement and the Civil Rights Struggle, by John A. Salmond (2004) Radio and the Struggle for Civil Rights in the South, by Brian Ward (2004, first paperback edition, 2006) Luther P. Jackson and a Life for Civil Rights, by Michael Dennis (2004) Southern Ladies, New Women: Race, Region, and Clubwomen in South Carolina, 1890–1930, by Joan Marie Johnson (2004) Fighting Against the Odds: A History of Southern Labor Since World War II, by Timothy J. Minchin (2005, first paperback edition, 2006) “Don’t Sleep With Stevens!”: The J. P. Stevens Campaign and the Struggle to Organize the South, 1963–1980, by Timothy J. Minchin (2005) “The Ticket to Freedom:” The NAACP and the Struggle for Black Political Integration, by Manfred Berg (2005) “War Governor of the South”: North Carolina’s Zeb Vance in the Confederacy, by Joe A. Mobley (2005) Planters’ Progress: Modernizing Confederate Georgia, by Chad Morgan (2005) The Officers of the CSS Shenandoah, by Angus Curry (2006) The Rosenwald Schools of the American South, by Mary S. Hoffschwelle (2006) Honor in Command: The Civil War Memoir of Lt. Freeman Sparks Bowley, 30th United States Colored Infantry, edited by Keith P. Wilson (2006) A Black Congressman in the Age of Jim Crow: South Carolina’s George Washington Murray, by John F. Marszalek (2006) The Spirit and the Shotgun: Armed Resistance and the Struggle for Civil Rights, by Simon Wendt (2007) Making a New South: Race, Leadership, and Community after the Civil War, edited by Paul A. Cimbala and Barton C. Shaw (2007) From Rights to Economics: The Ongoing Struggle for Black Equality in the U.S. South, by Timothy J. Minchin (2008) Slavery on Trial: Race, Class, and Criminal Justice in Antebellum Richmond, Virginia, by James M. Campbell (2008) Welfare and Charity in the Antebellum South, by Timothy James Lockley (2008) T. Thomas Fortune the Afro-American Agitator: A Collection of Writings, 1880–1928, by Shawn Leigh Alexander (2008) Francis Butler Simkins: A Life, by James S. Humphreys (2008) Black Manhood and Community Building in North Carolina, 1900–1930, by Angela Hornsby-Gutting (2009) Counterfeit Gentlemen: Manhood and Humor in the Old South, by John Mayfield (2009) The Southern Mind under Union Rule: The Diary of James Rumley, Beaufort, North Carolina, 1862–1865, edited by Judkin Browning (2009) The Quarters and the Fields: Slave Families in the Non-Cotton South, by Damian Alan Pargas (2010) The Door of Hope: Republican Presidents and the First Southern Strategy, 1877–1933, by Edward O. Frantz (2011) ...