Preface
Prologue: The Enduring South
List of Maps
Chapter 16. After the War
Reconstruction / Presidential Reconstruction / Southern Defiance: Unconquered Rebels? / The Republicans and Johnson's Reconstruction Policies / The 1866 Election and the Fourteenth Amendment / Reconstruction: Myth and Reality / The Emergence of the One-Party South / The Compromise of 1877
Chapter 17. Economic Reconstruction, 1865-1880
Landlords, Sharecroppers, and Tenants / Blacks and the Limits to Freedom / "Furnish," Crop Liens, and Country Merchants / Money and Interest / Puppet Monarch / Southern Railways / Bankruptcy, Consolidation, and Regulation / Cities, Towns, and Industry
Chapter 18. The Redeemers and the New South, 1865-1890
The New South Creed / The Lost Cause / A Woman of the New South / Political Independents Challenge the Redeemers / Republicans and Democrats in Virginia / The Solid South / Southern Democrats and Blacks / The Solid South and National Politics / The Blair Bill / The Legacy of the Redeemers
Chapter 19. A Different South Emerges: Rails, Mills, and Towns
Railroad Empires / Industry in the New South / Forest Products / Metals and Minerals / Processed Farm Products / Tobacco Manufacturing / Cotton Manufacturing / Urbanization in the New South / A Different South: At the Turn of the Century
Chapter 20. The South and the Crisis of the 1890s
The Depression of the 1890s / Prelude to the Alliance Movement / The Alliance Movement: Texas Roots / The Alliance in Politics / The Mississippi Plan / The Populists / Political Upheaval / The Populist Legacy / Disfranchisement: Jim Crow and Southern Politics / The Foundation Resecured
Chapter 21. Jim Crow: Black and White South
The Atlanta Compromise / Jim Crow / Why Jim Crow? / The Black World / Industrial Workers in the New South / Unions and Unionization in the New South / New Divisions among Protestants / Political Demagogues
Chapter 22. Southern Progressives
Four Southern Progressives / Progressivism, Southern Style / The Roots of Southern Progressivism / Educational Reform / Health Reforms / Child Labor Reform / Southern Ladies / Prohibition: The Noble Experiment
Chapter 23. Restoration and Exile, 1912-1929
The Wilson Administration / A Disrupted Society: The South during World War I / Good Times: The Southern Economy and World War I / Southern Appalachia / The Town World / Business Progressivism and State Government / The Ku Klux Klan Reborn / The Black World / The World of the Farm / The End of the Decade
Chapter 24. Religion and Culture in the New South
The Scopes Trial / The Religious Heritage of the Twentieth-Century South / Culture in the Postbellum South / The War Within / The Southern Literary Renaissance / Southern Regionalism in the 1920s and 1930s / Gone with the Wind
Map Essay: The Changing South: People and Cotton
Chapter 25. The Emergence of the Modern South, 1930-1945
The Depression and the South / In the Democratic Majority / The New Deal and Southern Agriculture / The New Deal and Southern Industry / Cracks in the Solid South / Jim Crow: An Uncertain Future / World War II
Chapter 26. The End of Jim Crow: The Civil Rights Revolution
Jim Crow and the Truman Administration / The Supreme Court and "Separate but Equal" / Brown: Massive Resistance, Calculated Evasion / Public School Desegregation: Little Rock and New Orleans / The Civil Rights Movement / The Kennedy Administration and Civil Rights / Birmingham and the March on Washington / The Voting Rights Act / The Evening News and "History" / Public School Desegregation and the End of "Freedom of Choice"
Chapter 27. The Modern South
Wallace and National Politics / The Rise of the Southern Republicans / The Collapse of the Solid South / The Republican Party Secures Its Place in Dixie / The Transformation of the Southern Democrats / The Sunbelt / "Cotton Fields No More" / The Metropolitan South
Chapter 28. The Sunbelt South: No Eden in Dixie
The Vanishing South? / Two Religions: North and South? / Other Faiths: Southern Literature, Football, and Elvis / Persistent Divisions: Black and White
Biographies
Bibliographical Essay
Index
About the Authors
