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Wilcox County, Alabama, is a fascinating repository of Southern history. with its conflicting images of romanticism and repression. After recounting the county's early history to set the stage for what was to come, Clinton McCarty, a journalist whose own roots are in Wilcox, moves into the 1960s and beyond, detailing the county's extended school desegregation battle and its painful transition from white to black political control. He then takes a closer look at how blacks have done in their stewardship and consider's Wilcox's prospects in the new millennium.
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THE REINS OF POWER; RACIAL CHANGE AND CHALLENGE IN A SOUTHERN COUNTY. [Wilcox County, Alabama.]
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Tallahassee, FL: Sentry Press, 1999., 1999
ISBN 10: 1889574066
ISBN 13: 9781889574066
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None (illustrator). Presumed first edition (no direct statement provided) INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR WITH AUTHOR'S TYPED LETTER SIGNED ALSO LAID-IN. xvi, 374 pages. Hardcover: H 23.5cm x L 15.75cm. Dust jacket lightly rubbed with some bumping at edges; front flap is price-clipped. Navy blue cloth with vibrant gilt stamping to spine. Author's four-line ink inscription to a college fraternity brother familiarly signed "Clint" upon half-title page. Author's folded TLS laid-in at front endpapers; letter is single one-sided sheet stapled to two photocopies of their college yearbook fraternity pages. Interior pages are otherwise bright and clean. Binding is firm. A fine copy in a very good+ dust jacket. With Introduction, Epilogue, Acknowledgments, Bibliography, Source Notes, and Index. ISBN 1889574066. Seller Inventory # Z626X-7416
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The Reins of Power: Racial Change and Challenge in a Southern County
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