by John Egerton
Caudill, Harry M. Night Comes to the Cumberlands: A Biography of a Depressed Area. Boston: Atlantic/Little, Brown, 1963.
Caute, David. The Great Fear: The Anti-Communist Purge Under Truman and Eisenhower. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1978.
Cayton, Horace, and George S. Mitchell. Black Workers and New Unions. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1939.
Chalmers, David M. Hooded Americanism: The First Century of the Ku Klux Klan, 1865–1965. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1965.
Charters, Samuel, and Ann Charters. The Poetry of the Blues. New York: Oak, 1963. (Lyrics and social history, with photographs.)
Childers, James Saxon. A Novel About a White Man and a Black Man in the Deep South. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1936.
Clark, Septima. Ready from Within: Septima Clark and the Civil Rights Movement. Navarro, Calif.: Wild Trees, 1986.
Clark, Septima, with LeGette Blythe. Echo in My Soul. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1962. (The autobiography of a South Carolina educator and her part in the fight against segregation.)
Clark, Thomas D. The Emerging South. New York: Oxford University Press, 1961.
_____. The South Since Reconstruction. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1973.
Clark, Thomas D., and Albert D. Kirwan. The South Since Appomattox: A Century of Regional Change. New York: Oxford University Press, 1967.
Clayton, Bruce. W. J. Cash: A Life. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1991.
Clayton, Bruce, and John A. Salmond, eds. The South Is Another Land: Essays on the Twentieth-Century South. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1987. (Included are essays on James F. Byrnes, W. J. Cash, Lucy Randolph Mason, and documentary books of the Great Depression.)
Cliff, Michelle, ed. The Winner Names the Age: A Collection of Writings by Lillian Smith. New York: W. W. Norton, 1978.
Coan, Otis W., and Richard G. Lillard. America in Fiction: An Annotated List of Novels That Interpret Aspects of Life in the United States. Palo Alto, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1941. (Short descriptive notes, but a very long and useful list of books, including many pertinent to the South.)
Cobb, James C. The Selling of the South: The Southern Crusade for Industrial Development, 1936–1980. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1982.
Cobb, James C., and Michael V. Namorato, eds. The New Deal and the South. Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 1984. (Essays by Numan V. Bartley, Alan Brinkley, Pete Daniel, J. Wayne Flynt, Frank Freidel, Harvard Sitkoff.)
Cohodas, Nadine. Strom Thurmond and the Politics of Southern Change. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1993.
Coles, Robert. Farewell to the South. Boston: Atlantic/Little Brown, 1972. (Essays written by the noted Harvard psychiatrist during his fifteen years of working and living in the South.)
Collier, James Lincoln. Duke Ellington. New York: Oxford University Press, 1981.
Collier, Tarleton. Fire in the Sky. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1941. (fiction)
Collins, Charles Wallace. Whither Solid South? A Study in Politics and Race Relations. New Orleans: Pelican, 1947. (Scholarly underpinning for the white-supremacy argument.)
Conkin, Paul K. Tomorrow a New World: The New Deal Community Program. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1959. (The only complete tracing of “new communities” developed by the Farm Security Administration and other New Deal agencies in the prewar era, 1933–1942.)
____. Gone with the Ivy: A Biography of Vanderbilt University. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1985.
_____. The Southern Agrarians. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1988.
Cook, Fred J. The Nightmare Decade: The Life and Times of Senator Joe McCarthy. New York: Random House, 1971.
Cooper, William J., Jr., and Thomas E. Terrill. The American South: A History. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990.
Couch, W. T., ed. Culture in the South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1934.
Couch, W. T., et al., eds. These Are Our Lives. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1939. (Personal histories of Southern working men and women in North Carolina, Tennessee, and Georgia, recorded and written by members of the Federal Writers’ Project staff in the Southeast, under the direction of Couch.)
Couto, Richard. Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Round: The Pursuit of Racial Justice in the Rural South. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1991.
Crossman, Richard, ed. The God That Failed. New York: Harper & Row, 1949. (Personal essays on their experiences with communism by six intellectuals, including Richard Wright.)
Cunningham, Bill. Kentucky’s Clark. Kuttawa, Ky.: McClanahan, 1987. (Oral history interview and autobiographical remembrance by historian Thomas D. Clark.)
Current, Richard N. Northernizing the South. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1983.
Dabbs, James McBride. The Southern Heritage. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1958.
_____. Civil Rights in Recent Southern Fiction. Atlanta: Southern Regional Council, 1969.
_____. Haunted by God: The Cultural and Religious Experience of the South. Richmond: John Knox, 1972.
Dabney, Virginius. Liberalism in the South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1932.
_____. Below the Potomac: A Book About the New South. New York: Appleton-Century, 1942.
_____. Across the Years: Memories of a Virginian. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1978.
Dalfiume, Richard M. Desegregation of the U.S. Armed Forces: Fighting on Two Fronts, 1939–1953. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1969.
Dallek, Robert. Lone Star Rising: Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1908–1960. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.
Daniel, Bradford, ed. Black, White and Gray: Twenty-one Points of View on the Race Question. New York: Sheed and Ward, 1964.
Daniel, Pete. The Shadow of Slavery: Peonage in the South, 1901–1969. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1972.
_____. Breaking the Land: The Transformation of Cotton, Tobacco, and Rice Cultures Since 1880. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1985.
_____. Standing at the Crossroads: Southern Life in the Twentieth Century. New York: Hill & Wang, 1986.
Daniels, Jonathan. A Southerner Discovers the South. New York: Macmillan, 1938.
_____. Tar Heels: A Portrait of North Carolina. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1941.
_____. The Man of Independence. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1950. (A biography of Harry Truman.)
_____. The Time Between the Wars: Armistice to Pearl Harbor. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1966.
_____. White House Witness, 1942–1945. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1975.
Davis, Allison, and John Dollard. Children of Bondage: The Personality Development of Negro Youth in the Urban South. Washington, D.C.: American Council on Education, 1940.
Davis, Allison, Burleigh B. Gardner, and Mary R. Gardner. Deep South: A Social Anthropological Study of Caste and Class. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1941. (This study focuses on Natchez and Claiborne County, Mississippi.)
Davis, Frank Marshall. I Am the American Negro. Chicago: Black Cat Press, 1937. (A volume of poetry.)
_____. Livin’ the Blues: Memoirs of a Black Journalist and Poet. Edited, with an introduction by John Edgar Tidwell. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1993. (A posthumous publication of the writer’s autobiography.)
Dawson, Carl. November 1948. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1990.
Day, John F. Bloody Ground. New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1941. Reprint, with new commentary by Thomas D. Clark and Harry M. Caudill, Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1981. (Stark description of the Kentucky coalfields in the 1930s.)
Degler, Carl N. Place Over Time: The Continuity of Southern Distinctiveness. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1977.
_____, ed. The New Deal. New York: Quadrangle, 1970.
Dies, Martin. The Trojan Horse in America. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1940. (An attack on communism, ghost-written by J. B. Matthews, a Kentu
cky native and former Communist who was chief investigator for the House Un-American Activities Committee.)
Dixon, Thomas. The Flaming Sword. Atlanta: Monarch, 1939. (The last of the propagandists novels of a widely read North Carolina right-winger who also wrote The Clansman, on which the movie Birth of a Nation was based.)
Dollard, John. Caste and Class in a Southern Town. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1937. (A sociological study of a Mississippi Delta community—either Indianola or Greenwood.)
Donald, David Herbert. Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe. Boston: Little, Brown, 1987.
Donovan, Robert J. Eisenhower: The Inside Story. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1956.
_____. Conflict and Crisis: The Presidency of Harry S Truman, 1945–1948. New York: W. W. Norton, 1977.
Doyle, Don H. Nashville Since the 1920s. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1985.
Drake, St. Clair, and Horace R. Cayton. Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1945. (Southern expatriate Richard Wright wrote the introduction to this study of Chicago.)
Duberman, Martin Bauml. Paul Robeson. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988.
Du Bois, W. E. B. The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches. Chicago: A. C. McClurg, 1903.
_____. Black Folk, Then and Now: An Essay in the History and Sociology of the Negro Race. New York: Henry Holt, 1939. Reprint, with a new introduction by Herbert Aptheker, Millwood, N.J.: Kraus-Thomson Organization, 1975.
_____. Dusk of Dawn: An Essay Toward an Autobiography of a Race Concept. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1940. Reprint, with a new introduction by Herbert Aptheker, Millwood, N.J.: Kraus-Thomson Organization, 1975.
_____. The Autobiography of W. E. B. Du Bois: A Soliloquy on Viewing My Life from the Last Decade of Its First Century. New York: International, 1968. (Written in his ninetieth year and published five years after his death.)
Dunbar, Anthony P. Against the Grain: Southern Radicals and Prophets, 1929–1959. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1981. (Howard Kester, H. L. Mitchell, Claude Williams, Don West, and James Dombrowski are the principal figures in this work of social history/biography.)
Dunne, Gerald T. Hugo Black and the Judicial Revolution. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1977.
Durr, Virginia Foster. Outside the Magic Circle. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1985. (Autobiography of an Alabama liberal activist of the mid-twentieth century, edited by Hollinger F. Barnard.)
Dykeman, Wilma. Prophet of Plenty: The First Ninety Years of W. D. Weatherford. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1966.
Dykeman, Wilma, and James Stokely. Neither Black nor White. New York: Rinehart, 1957. (Early reporting and analysis of the civil rights movement.)
_____. Seeds of Southern Change: The Life of Will Alexander. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962.
Eagles, Charles W. Jonathan Daniels and Race Relations: The Evolution of a Southern Liberal. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1982.
East, P. D. The Magnolia Jungle: The Life, Times and Education of a Southern Editor. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1960.
Egerton, John. A Mind to Stay Here: Profiles from the South. New York: Macmillan, 1970. (Howard Kester, James McBride Dabbs, and others.)
Eighmy, John Lee. Churches in Cultural Captivity: A History of Social Attitudes of Southern Baptists. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1972.
Eller, Ron D. Miners, Millhands, and Mountaineers: Industrialization of the Appalachian South. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1982.
Elliott, Carl, Sr., and Michael D’Orso. The Cost of Courage: The Journey of an American Congressman. New York: Doubleday, 1992. (Memoir of an Alabama moderate.)
Ellison, Ralph. Invisible Man. New York: Random House, 1952. (novel)
_____. Going to the Territory. New York: Random House, 1986. (Essays and other nonfiction.)
Embree, Edwin R. Brown America: The Story of a New Race. New York: Viking, 1931.
_____. 13 Against the Odds. New York: Viking, 1944. (Short biographies of Mary M.
Bethune, Richard Wright, Charles S. Johnson, Walter White, G. W. Carver, Langston Hughes, Marian Anderson, W. E. B. Du Bois, Mordecai Johnson, William Grant Still, A. Philip Randolph, Joe Louis, and Paul Robeson.)
Embree, Edwin R., and Julia Waxman. Investment in People: The Story of the Julius Rosenwald Fund. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1949. (A retrospective assessment of the Rosenwald philanthropy, including a list of its 1,500 fellowship recipients.)
Emmerich, J. Oliver. Two Faces of Janus: The Saga of Deep South Change. Jackson: University and College Press of Mississippi, 1973.
Ethridge, Richard C. “Mississippi’s Role in the Dixiecrat Movement.” Ph.D. diss., Mississippi State University, 1971.
Evans, Eli N. The Provincials: A Personal History of Jews in the South. New York: Atheneum, 1973.
_____. The Lonely Days Were Sundays: Reflections of a Jewish Southerner. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1993.
Fabre, Michael. The Unfinished Quest of Richard Wright. New York: William Morrow, 1973.
Fadiman, Regina K. Faulkner’s “Intruder in the Dust”: Novel into Film. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1978.
Farmer, James. Lay Bare the Heart: An Autobiography of the Civil Rights Movement. New York: Arbor House, 1985. (The autobiography of the cofounder and director of the Congress of Racial Equality.)
Faulkner, William. The Sound and the Fury. New York: Random House, 1929. (Race, class, culture, family, and history are among the complex elements in this novel of the rural South, the fourth of about twenty fictional works by the Nobel Prize–winning Mississippi author between 1926 and 1959; among the others to probe these themes are As I Lay Dying [1930], Light in August [1932], Absalom, Absalom! [1936], Go Down, Moses [1942], and Intruder in the Dust [1948].)
Federal Writers’ Project. American Stuff: An Anthology of Prose and Verse by Members of the Federal Writers’ Project, With Sixteen Prints by the Federal Arts Project. New York: Viking, 1937. (Among the entries is Richard Wright’s “The Ethics of Living Jim Crow.”)
Ferrell, Robert H., ed. Off the Record: The Private Papers of Harry S Truman. New York: Harper & Row, 1980.
Ferris, William. Blues from the Delta. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1978.
Fifteen Southerners. Why the South Will Survive. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1981. (Scholars and writers, including Cleanth Brooks, John Shelton Reed, and Fred Hobson, examine their region a half-century after the Vanderbilt Agrarians.)
Fishel, Leslie H., Jr., and Benjamin Quarles, eds. The Negro American: A Documentary History. Glenview, Ill.: Scott, Foresman, 1967.
Fite, Gilbert C. Cotton Fields No More: Southern Agriculture, 1865–1980. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1984.
Flamming, Douglas. Creating the Modern South: Millhands and Managers in Dalton, Georgia, 1884–1984. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993.
Flynt, J. Wayne. Dixie’s Forgotten People: The South’s Poor Whites. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1979.
_____. Poor but Proud: Alabama’s Poor Whites. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1989.
Fontenay, Charles L. Estes Kefauver: A Biography. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1980.
Ford, Thomas R., ed. The Southern Appalachian Region: A Survey. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1962. (A comprehensive social-cultural-historical study of the mountain region.)
Fowler, Hubert R. The Unsolid South: Voting Behavior of Southern Senators, 1947–1960. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1968.
Frank, John P. Mr. Justice Black: The Man and His Opinions. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1948.
Franklin, John Hope. From Slavery to Freedom: A History of American Negroes. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1947.
_____. The Militant South. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1956.
_____. Race and History: Selected Essays, 1938–1988. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State
University Press, 1989.
Franklin, Sam H., Jr. “Early Years of the Delta Cooperative Farm and the Providence Cooperative Farm.” Alcoa, Tenn.: Privately printed, 1980. (A remembrance of two interracial agricultural communities in Mississippi, 1939 to 1959, by one of the principals, a retired theologian.)
Frazier, E. Franklin. The Negro Family in the United States. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1939. (Numerous revised and expanded editions have been issued as The Negro in the United States.)
_____. Black Bourgeoisie: The Rise of a New Middle Class. Glencoe, Ill.: Free Press, 1957.
Frazier, E. Franklin, and C. Eric Lincoln. “The Negro Church in America” and “The Black Church Since Frazier.” New York: Schocken, 1974. (Combined reissue of Frazier’s 1964 study and Lincoln’s “sequel” based on his 1970 James Gray lectures at Duke University.)
Freidel, Frank. F.D.R. and the South. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1965. Friedman, Leon, ed. Southern Justice. New York: Pantheon, 1965. (Lawyers’ perspectives on judges, the courts, and the administration of justice in the South since World War II.)
Furguson, Ernest B. Hard Right: The Rise of Jesse Helms. New York: W. W. Norton, 1986.
Gaillard, Frye. The Dream Long Deferred. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988. (The Charlotte, North Carolina, school desegregation story, with antecedents.)
Gallagher, Buell G. Color and Conscience: The Irrepressible Conflict. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1946.
Garfinkel, Herbert. When Negroes March: The March on Washington Movement in the Organizational Politics for FEPC. Glencoe, Ill.: Free Press, 1959.
Garrison, Joseph Yates. “Paul Revere Christopher: Southern Labor Leader, 1910–1974.” Ph.D. diss., Georgia State University, 1976.
Garrow, David J. Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. New York: William Morrow, 1986.
Garson, Robert A. The Democratic Party and the Politics of Sectionalism, 1941–1948. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1974.
Gaston, Paul. The New South Creed: A Study in Southern Mythmaking. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1970.
Gavins, Raymond. The Perils and Prospects of Southern Black Leadership: Gordon Blaine Hancock, 1884–1970. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1977.