Description: Essays that plumb the minds of intellectuals and activists caught up in the struggle for justice in the American South during the 1950s and 1960s
Brief description: Ted Ownby is professor of history and southern studies at the University of Mississippi. His books include American Dreams in Mississippi: Consumers, Poverty, and Culture, 1830-1998 (1999) and Subduing Satan: Religion, Recreation, and Manhood in the Rural South, 1865-1920 (1990).