Discovering the South : One Man's Travels through a Changing America in the 1930s /

"In the summer of 1937, Jonathan Daniels, the young, white, liberal-minded editor of the Raleigh News and Observer, took a ten-state driving tour to 'discover' his native land. He thought the true South lay somewhere between Erskine Caldwell's Tobacco Road and Margaret Mitchell&#...

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Main Author: Ritterhouse, Jennifer Lynn (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2017]
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505 0 |a We so-called free moderns : Raleigh, North Carolina -- This division between faith in democracy and power descending from authority : from Raleigh to Lookout Mountain, Tennessee -- The demand for justice will not be a cause furthered only by radicals : Scottsboro, Alabama -- A quaint and quixotic group of gentlemen : Nashville, Tennessee -- Tenants are able to hold their heads a little higher : Memphis, Tennessee -- Naked and hot as if she were stripped in the sun : Marked Tree, Arkansas -- The most interesting man I met : from Hot Springs, Arkansas, to Tuskegee, Alabama -- As furious as the last horseman of a legion of the bitter-end : Birmingham, Alabama -- A red-headed woman immaculate and immediate from the beauty parlor : Atlanta, Georgia -- The newly exciting question of the possibility of democracy : from Atlanta to Raleigh, North Carolina. 
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