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This book takes a provocative look into civil rights progress in the Palmetto State from activists, statesmen, and historians. Toward the Meeting of the Waters represents a watershed moment in civil rights history -- bringing together voices of leading historians alongside recollections from central participants to provide the first comprehensive history of the civil rights movement as experienced by black and white South Carolinians. Edited by Winfred B. Moore Jr. and Orville Vernon Burton, this work originated with a highly publicized landmark conference on civil rights held at the Citadel in Charleston. The volume openings with an assessment of the transition of South Carolina leaders from defiance to moderate enforcement of federally mandated integration and includes commentary by former governor and U.S. senator Ernest F. Hollings and former governor John C. West. Subsequent chapters recall defining moments of white-on-black violence and aggression to set the context for understanding the efforts of reformers such as Levi G. Byrd and Septima Poinsette Clark and for interpreting key episodes of white resistance. Emerging from these essays is arresting evidence that, although South Carolina did not experience as much violence as many other southern states, the civil rights movement here was more fiercely embattled than previously acknowledged. The section of retrospectives serves as an oral history of the era as it was experienced by a mixture of locally and nationally recognized participants, including historians such as John Hope Franklin and Tony Badger as well as civil rights activists Joseph A. De Laine Jr., Beatrice Brown Rivers, Charles McDew, Constance Curry, Matthew J. Perry Jr., Harvey B. Gantt, and Cleveland Sellers Jr. The volume concludes with essays by historians Gavin Wright, Dan Carter, and Charles Joyner, who bring this story to the present day and examine the legacy of the civil rights movement in South Carolina from a modern perspective. Toward the Meeting of the Waters also includes thirty-seven photographs from the period, most of them by Cecil Williams and many published here for the first time. - Publisher.
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African Americans, Civil rights, History, Segregation, Civil rights movements, African American civil rights workers, Racism, Lynching, Race relations, Politics and government, Rassismus, Lynchjustiz, Bürgerrechtsbewegung, Rassentrennung, African americans, civil rights, African americans, segregation, Civil rights movements, united states, United states, race relations, South carolina, politics and government, African americans, south carolina, African americans, history, South carolina, historyEdition | Availability |
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Toward the Meeting of the Waters: Currents in the Civil Rights Movement of South Carolina During the Twentieth Century
Oct 20, 2011, University of South Carolina Press
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Toward the meeting of the waters: currents in the civil rights movement of South Carolina during the twentieth century
2008, University of South Carolina Press
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