Description: By the end of the New Deal era, changes in these regions had prepared the way for the civil rights movement and the end of segregation.
Brief description: J. William Harris is a professor and chair of the History Department at the University of New Hampshire. His previous books include Society and Culture in the Slave South (editor) and Plain Folk and Gentry in a Slave Society: White Liberty and Black Slavery in Augusta's Hinterlands.
Review Quotes: This book succeeds admirably in . . . show[ing] that far from being static during the years between Reconstruction and the Second World War, the southern states were rapidly changing . . . It would be hard to find a better ground-level account.
--Howard Temperley, Times Literary Supplement