Defying Dixie by Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore
A groundbreaking history of the Southern movement for social justice that gave birth to civil rights.
Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore is the Peter V. and C. Vann Woodward Professor of History, African American Studies, and American Studies at Yale University. Her research interests include twentieth-century U.S. history; African American history since 1865; U.S. women's and gender history since 1865; history of the American South; and reform movements. Her publications include Norton’s Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950, which was one of the American Library Association’s Notable Books and the Washington Post’s Best Books of 2008, and she edited Who Were the Progressives? and co-edited Jumpin’ Jim Crow: Southern Politics from Civil War to Civil Rights. Her first book, Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920, won the Frederick Jackson Turner Award, the James A. Rawley Prize, the Julia Cherry Spruill Prize, and the Heyman Prize.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780393062441 |
| ISBN 10 | 0393062449 |
| Title | Defying Dixie |
| Author | Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | WW Norton & Co |
| Year published | 2008-02-12 |
| Number of pages | 656 |
| Prizes | Winner of ALA Notable Books (Nonfiction) 2009 |
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