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"Dixie is a political and social history of the South during the second half of the twentieth century told from Curtis Wilkie's perspective as a white man intimately transformed by enormous racial and political upheavals.".
"Wilkie's personal take on some of the landmark events of modern American history is as engaging as it is insightful. He attended Ole Miss during the rioting in the fall of 1962, when James Meredith became the first African American to enroll in the school. After graduation, Wilkie worked in Clarksdale, Mississippi, where he met Aaron Henry, a local druggist and later the prominent head of the Mississippi NAACP.
He covered the Mississippi Freedom Summer of 1964 and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party challenge at the national convention in Atlantic City, and he was a member of the biracial insurgent Democratic delegation from Mississippi seated in place of Governor John Bell Williams's delegation at the 1968 convention in Chicago.
Wilkie followed Jimmy Carter's campaign for the presidency, becoming friends with Billy Carter; he covered Bill Clinton's election in 1992 and was witness to the South's startling shift from the Democratic Party to the GOP; and finally, he was there when Byron De La Beckwith was convicted for the murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers thirty-one years after the fact."--BOOK JACKET.
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Politics and government, Race relations, Journalists, Civilization, Social conditions, Biography, Journalists, biography, Southern states, civilization, Southern states, race relations, Southern states, social conditions, Mississippi, biography, Mississippi, politics and governmentPeople
Curtis Wilkie, Wilkey familyPlaces
Mississippi, Southern States, United StatesTimes
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Dixie: A Personal Odyssey Through Events That Shaped the Modern South
October 1, 2002, Scribner
Paperback
in English
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Dixie: A Personal Osyssey Through Historic Events That Shaped the Modern South
October 2001, Scribner
Unknown Binding
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Dixie: A Personal Odyssey Through Events That Shaped the Modern South
September 25, 2001, Scribner
Hardcover
in English
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Dixie: a personal odyssey through events that shaped the modern South
2001, Scribner
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