History and Hope in the Heart of Dixie: Scholarship, Activism, and Wayne Flynt in the Modern South

Contents

Editors’ Introduction / vii 1. Can Any Good Thing Come from Auburn? John Shelton Reed / 1 2. Revisiting Race Relations in an Upland South Community: LaCrosse, Arkansas Brooks Blevins / 5 3. Southern Accents: The Politics of Race and the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 Susan Youngblood Ashmore / 26 4. Is There a Balm in Gilead? Baptists and Reform in North Carolina 1900–1925 Richard D. Starnes / 66 5. The Beginnings of Interracialism: Macon, Georgia, in the 1930s Andrew M. Manis / 91 6. Race, Class, the Southern Conference, and the Beginning of the End of the New Deal Coalition Glenn Feldman / 124 7. “Wallaceism is an insidious and treacherous type of disease”: The 1970 Alabama Gubernatorial Election and the “Wallace Freeze” on Alabama Politics Gordon E. Harvey / 158 Contents 8. Divide and Conquer: Interest Groups and Political Culture in Alabama, 1929–1971 Jeff Frederick / 179 9. The Scholar as Activist Dewayne Key / 196 10. Evangelist for Constitutional Reform Bailey Thomson / 203 11. The Historian as Public Policy Activist Dan T. Carter / 210 Contributors / 217 Index / 219 vi Contents ...