Description: Speak Now Against the Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South
Brief description: John Egerton (1935-2013), an independent nonfiction writer, wrote extensively on his native South. He is author of more than a dozen books, including The Americanization of Dixie and Southern Food: At Home, on the Road, in History.
Review Quotes: "John Egerton has brilliantly uncovered the lost chapter of the civil rights movement. . . . Speak Now Against the Day will be the standard history of the early civil rights movement against which all others will be measured." -- Boston Globe