Description: Toward the Meeting of the Waters includes thirty-seven photographs from the period, most of them by Cecil Williams and many published here for the first time.
Brief description: Orville Vernon Burton is the Burroughs Distinguished Professor of Southern History and Culture at Coastal Carolina University. His numerous books on Southern history include The Age of Lincoln and In My Father's House Are Many Mansions: Family and Community in Edgefield, South Carolina.
Review Quotes:
Organized chronologically, the book gives a powerful description of... repression, redemption, and survival in a southern state in the era of Jim Crow. Add on contributions from Dan Carter, Jack Bass, and Cleveland Sellers, and the reader has that rarest of works-an anthology that sticks to a theme with coherence. There is no better place to begin a study of South Carolina politics, or southern history, for that matter. An outstanding work.
-- "Choice"