Inside Agitators: White Southerners in the Civil Rights Movement - Softcover

Chappell

Softcover

ISBN 10: 080185234X ISBN 13: 9780801852343

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996

Synopsis

Winner of the Outstanding Book on the Subject of Human Rights in North America Award from the Gustavus Myers Center

"In the movement, we always said that, like in a washing machine, it was the agitator that got the dirt out. David Chappell's book shows how the inside agitators helped cleanse the society of an extreme injustice. It is an enlightening and important look at a less publicized part of this history." -Andrew Young

"A superb study done with subtlety and keen insight, it is absolutely essential for understanding the vital role white Southerners played in the civil rights movement." -C. Vann Woodward, Yale University

"Chappell's argument is insightful and worth serious attention. It makes particularly fascinating reading from the perspective of the 1990s." -David R. Colburn, Reviews in American History

"In this engaging work on Southern whites who sympathized with the Civil Rights Movement, Chappell argues that moderate whites, though lacking a moral commitment to civil rights, played a key role in the movement's success at both the local and national levels." -Virginia Quarterly Review

About this title

About the Author

David Chappell teaches history at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.

From the Back Cover

This study began with a simple, and to me at the time startling, observation: there were white southerners who supported the civil rights movement.

Edition details

• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 080185234X
• ISBN 13: 9780801852343
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336