by John Egerton
Gayle, Addison. Richard Wright: Ordeal of a Native Son. Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor/Doubleday, 1980.
Gilliam, Dorothy Butler. Paul Robeson: All-American. Washington, D.C.: New Republic, 1976.
Gilpin, Patrick J. “Charles S. Johnson: An Intellectual Biography.” Ph.D. diss., Vanderbilt University, 1973.
Gladney, Margaret Rose, ed. How Am I to Be Heard? Letters of Lillian Smith. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993.
Glen, John M. Highlander: No Ordinary School, 1932–1962. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1988.
Gloster, Hugh. Negro Voices in American Fiction. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1948.
Golden, Harry. Carl Sandburg. New York: World, 1961. (Golden, an adopted North Carolinian, formed a close friendship with Sandburg after the poet moved to the state in 1945.)
_____. The Right Time: An Autobiography. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1969.
Goldfield, David R. Promised Land: The South Since 1945. Arlington Heights, Ill.: Harlan Davidson, 1987.
_____. Black, White and Southern: Race Relations and the Southern Culture, 1940 to the Present. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1990.
Goldman, Eric F. The Crucial Decade: America, 1945–1955. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1959.
Goodman, Walter. The Committee: The Extraordinary Career of the House Committee on Un-American Activities. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1968.
Gore, Albert. Let the Glory Out: My South and Its Politics. New York: Viking, 1972. (A memoir of the Tennessee senator’s thirty-two years in Washington.)
Gossett, Thomas F. Race: The History of an Idea in America. Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 1963.
Goulden, Joseph C. The Best Years, 1945–1950. New York: Atheneum, 1976.
Grafton, Carl, and Anne Permaloff. Big Mules and Branchheads: James E. Folsom and Political Power in Alabama. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1985.
Graham, Gene. One Man, One Vote: “Baker v. Carr” and the American Levellers. Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press/Little, Brown, 1972. (The background to reapportionment and voting rights.)
Graham, Hugh Davis. Crisis in Print: Desegregation and the Press in Tennessee. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1967.
_____. The Civil Rights Era: Origins and Development of National Policy, 1960–1972. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.
Grant, Nancy L. TV A and Black Americans: Planning for the Status Quo. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990. (A critical assessment of the racial and social policies of the New Deal’s most radical agency.)
Grantham, Dewey W. The Democratic South. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1963. (A political history of the South in the twentieth century.)
_____. The United States Since 1945: The Ordeal of Power. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1976. Expanded and updated edition under a new title, Recent America: The United States Since 1945, Arlington Heights, Ill.: Harlan Davidson, 1987.
_____. Southern Progressivism: The Reconciliation of Progress and Tradition. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1983.
_____. The Life and Death of the Solid South: A Political History. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1988.
Graves, John Temple. The Fighting South. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1943. (A Birmingham journalist’s wartime hearkening to old Southern verities that will make him, a thirties liberal, into a fifties reactionary.)
Green, Fletcher Melvin, ed. Essays in Southern History. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1949.
Green, George Norris. The Establishment in Texas Politics: The Primitive Years, 1938–1957. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1979.
Green, Paul. Out of the South: The Life of a People in Dramatic Form. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1939. (Fifteen plays, including the Pulitzer Prize–winning In Abraham’s Bosom.)
_____. The Hawthorn Tree: Some Papers and Letters on Life and the Theatre. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1943.
Gregory, Ross. America 1941: A Nation at the Crossroads. New York: Free Press, 1989.
Grubbs, Donald. Cry from the Cotton: The Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union and the New Deal. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1971.
Gunther, John. Inside U.S.A. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1947. (A sweeping postwar journalistic portrait of America’s diversity, with plenty of Southern material included.)
Haas, Edward F. DeLesseps S. Morrison and the Image of Reform: New Orleans Politics, 1946–1961. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1974.
Halberstam, David. The Fifties. New York: Villard, 1993. (Social history viewed from a distance of four decades.)
Hall, Jacqueline Dowd. Revolt Against Chivalry: Jessie Daniel Ames and the Women’s Campaign Against Lynching. New York: Columbia University Press, 1979.
Hall, Jacqueline Dowd, et al. Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1987.
Hall, Wade. The Rest of the Dream: The Black Odyssey of Lyman Johnson. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1988. (The life and times of a Kentucky desegregation pioneer.)
Hamby, Alonzo L. Beyond the New Deal: Harry S Truman and American Liberalism. New York: Columbia University Press, 1973.
_____. Liberalism and Its Challengers: FDR to Reagan. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.
Hamilton, Virginia Van der Veer. Lister Hill: Statesman from the South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1987.
Havard, William C., ed. The Changing Politics of the South. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1972. (A state-by-state assessment of the changing political scene, more than twenty years after V. O. Key’s classic.)
Havard, William C., and Walter Sullivan, eds. A Band of Prophets: The Vanderbilt Agrarians After Fifty Years. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1982.
Haygood, Atticus G. Our Brother in Black: His Freedom and His Future. St. Louis: Advocate, 1881.
Hays, Brooks. A Southern Moderate Speaks. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1959.
Heard, Alexander. A Two-Party South? Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1952. (An early political analysis of the rise of Republican power in the postwar South.)
Helm, MacKinley. Angel Mo’ and Her Son, Roland Hayes. Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press/Little, Brown, 1942. (An as-told- to autobiography of the noted concert singer, who was born, raised, and educated in the South.)
Hemenway, Robert E. Zora Neale Hurston: A Literary Biography. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1977.
Henderson, Harold Paulk. The Politics of Change in Georgia: A Political Biography of Ellis Arnall. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1991.
Hendrickson, Paul. Looking for the Light: The Hidden Life and Art of Marion Post Wolcott. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992.
Hentoff, Nat. The Jazz Life. New York: Dial, 1961. (This book covers, among other things, the Southern origins of the music.)
Hill, Herbert, ed. Soon, One Morning: New Writing by American Negroes, 1940–1962. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1966.
Hill, Samuel S., ed. Encyclopedia of Religion in the South. Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 1984.
Hill, Samuel S., Edgar T. Thompson, et al. Religion and the Solid South. Nashville: Abingdon, 1972.
Hobson, Fred. Serpent in Eden: H. L. Mencken and the South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1974.
_____. Tell About the South: The Southern Rage to Explain. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1983. (The author probes the efforts of Southern writers down through the years to understand and interpret the mystique of their region.)
_____, ed. South Watching: Selected Essays by Gerald W. Johnson. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1983.
Holt, Rackham. Mary McLeod Bethune: A Biography. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1964.
Horton, Myles, with Judith Kohl and Herbert Kohl. The Long Haul: An Autobiography. New York: Doubleday, 1990.
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Houser, Henry Paul. “The Southern Regional Council.” Master’s thesis, University of North Carolina, 1950.
Howe, Irving, and Lewis Coser. The American Communist Party: A Critical History, 1919–1957. Boston: Beacon, 1957.
Huey, Gary. Rebel with a Cause: P. D. East, Southern Liberalism, and the Civil Rights Movement, 1953–1971. Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources, 1985. (The biography of an iconoclastic Mississippi journalist.)
Hughes, Langston. The Big Sea: An Autobiography. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1940. (An account of Hughes’s early life.)
_____. I Wonder as I Wander: An Autobiographical Journey. New York: Rinehart, 1956. (This volume covers the 1930s.)
Huie, William Bradford. Mud on the Stars. New York: L. B. Fischer, 1942. (Fiction set at the University of Alabama.)
_____. Ruby McCollum: Woman in the Suwannee Jail. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1956. (Early “new journalism” about a black woman in Florida jailed for the murder of a white doctor.)
Humphrey, Hubert, ed. Integration vs. Segregation. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1964. (Essays on race, edited by the liberal Minnesota senator.)
Humphrey, Seth K. The Racial Prospect. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1920.
Hurley, F. Jack. Portrait of a Decade: Roy Stryker and the Development of Documentary Photography in the Thirties. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1972.
_____. Marion Post Wolcott: A Photographic Journey. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1989.
Hurston, Zora Neale. Mules and Men. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1935. (Black folklore.)
_____. Dust Tracks on a Road. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1942. (An autobiography; the 1984 reprint contains chapters omitted from the original, and an introductory essay by Robert E. Hemenway.)
Jackson, Blyden. The Waiting Years: Essays on American Negro Literature. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1976.
Jackson, Walter A. Gunnar Myrdal and America’s Conscience: Social Engineering and Racial Liberalism, 1938–1987. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1990.
Jacoway, Elizabeth, and David R. Colburn, eds. Southern Businessmen and Desegregation. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1982.
Jewel, Derek. Duke. New York: W. W. Norton, 1977. (A biography of Duke Ellington.)
Johnson, Charles S. A Preface to Racial Understanding. New York: Friendship, 1936.
_____. Growing Up in the Black Belt: Negro Youth in the Rural South. New York: Schocken, 1941.
Johnson, Charles S., Edwin R. Embree, and W. W. Alexander. The Collapse of Cotton Tenancy. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1935.
Johnson, Charles S., et al. To Stem This Tide: A Survey of Racial Tension Areas in the United States. Boston: Pilgrim, 1943.
_____. Monthly Summary of Events and Trends in Race Relations. Nashville: Social Science Institute, Fisk University. (Five bound volumes of monthly reports covering the years 1943–1948—a digest of articles, analysis, and opinion drawn from about five hundred publications.)
_____. Into the Main Stream: A Survey of Best Practices in Race Relations in the South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1947.
Johnson, Gerald W. The Wasted Land. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1938. (The South and the Great Depression.)
Johnson, James Weldon. The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1912. Reissued in 1927, with a new introduction by Carl Van Vechten. (Fiction loosely based on the author’s experiences.)
_____. Along This Way. New York: Viking, 1933. (An autobiography.)
_____. Negro Americans, What Now? New York: Viking, 1934. (An unsentimental look back at the struggle for equality—and a realistic look at the future options facing black citizens.)
Johnson, Thomas L. “James McBride Dabbs: A Life Story.” Ph.D. diss., University of South Carolina, 1980.
Johnston, Erie. Mississippi’s Defiant Years, 1953–1973: An Interpretive Documentary with Personal Experiences. Forest, Miss.: Lake Harbor, 1990. (A candid and revealing “inside history” of massive resistance to desegregation in Mississippi, written by a former newspaper editor and political publicist who was an active participant in the resistance.)
Jones, Anne Goodwyn. Tomorrow Is Another Day: The Woman Writer in the South, 1859–1936. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1981.
Jordan, Clarence. The Cotton Patch Version of Paul’s Epistles. New York: Association Press, 1968. (Jordan, a white Baptist Southerner who founded Koinonia Farm, an interracial cooperative community near Americus, Georgia, in 1942, published this colloquial paraphrase of a portion of the New Testament a year before he died at the age of fifty-seven; more of his rich, earthy translations of scripture into the Southern idiom were published posthumously, including The Cotton Patch Version of Luke and Acts [1969] and The Cotton Patch Version of Matthew and John [1970].)
Kearns, Doris. Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream. New York: Harper & Row, 1976.
Kelley, Robin D. G. Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1990.
Kendrick, Benjamin Burks, and Alex Mathews Arnett. The South Looks at Its Past. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1935.
Kennedy, Stetson. Southern Exposure. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1946. (Postwar social criticism by a native Floridian.)
_____. Rode with the Klan. London: Arco, 1954. Reprint, as The Klan Unmasked, together with Jim Crow Guide (another Kennedy book published overseas in the 1950s), Boca Raton: Florida Atlantic University Press, 1990.
Kester, Howard. Revolt Among the Sharecroppers. New York: Covici-Friede, 1936. Reprint, New York: Arno Press and the New York Times, 1969.
Key, V. O., Jr., and Alexander Heard. Southern Politics in State and Nation. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1949.
Killens, John Oliver. Black Man’s Burden. New York: Trident, 1965.
Killian, Lewis M. White Southerners. New York: Random House, 1970. Revised edition, Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1985.
Kilpatrick, James Jackson. The Southern Case for School Segregation. New York: Crowell-Collier, 1962.
King, Richard H. A Southern Renaissance: The Cultural Awakening of the American South,0 1930–1955. New York: Oxford University Press, 1980.
Kingsbury, Paul, and Alan Axelrod, eds. Country: The Music and the Musicians. New York: Abbeville/Country Music Foundation, 1988. (An illustrated history of country-and-Western music from its origins in the rural South of the 1920s.)
Kirby, Jack Temple. Media-Made Dixie. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University, 1978. (The South as it appears in popular culture, especially the movies.)
_____. Rural Worlds Lost: The American South, 1920–1960. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1987.
Kirby, John B. Black Americans in the Roosevelt Era: Liberalism and Race. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1980.
Klibaner, Irwin. Conscience of a Troubled South: The Southern Conference Educational Fund, 1946–1966. Brooklyn, N.Y.: Carlson, 1989.
Kluger, Richard. Simple Justice: The History of “Brown v. Board of Education” and Black Americas Struggle for Equality. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. (Includes the text of the Brown decision and an index of principal related cases.)
Kneebone, John T. Southern Liberal Journalists and the Issue of Race, 1920–1944. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1985.
Krueger, Thomas A. And Promises to Keep: The Southern Conference for Human Welfare, 1938–1948. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1967.
Kuhn, Clifford M., Harlon E. Joye, and E. Bernard West. Living Atlanta: An Oral History of the City, 1914–1948. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1990.
Lachicotte, Alberta. Rebel Senator: Strom Thurmond of South Carolina. New York: Devin-Adair, 1966.
Lacy, Leslie Alexander. Cheer the Lonesome Traveler: The Life of W. E. B. Du Bois. New York: Dial, 1970.
Lamon, Les
ter. Blacks in Tennessee, 1791–1970. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1981.
Landry, Stuart Omer. The Cult of Equality: A Study of the Race Problem. New Orleans: Pelican, 1945. (A white writer’s brief for inequality.)
Lash, Joseph. Dealers and Dreamers: A New Look at the New Deal. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1988.
Lawson, R. Alan. The Failure of Independent Liberalism, 1930–1941. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1971.
Lawson, Steven F. Black Ballots: Voting Rights in the South, 1944–1969. New York: Columbia University Press, 1976.
_____. Running for Freedom: Civil Rights and Black Politics in America Since 1941. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1991.
Lemann, Nicholas. The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991.
Lester, Jim. A Man for Arkansas: Sid McMath and the Southern Reform Tradition. Little Rock: Rose, 1976.
Lester, Julius, ed. The Seventh Son: The Thought and Writings of W. E. B. Du Bois. 2 vols. New York: Random House, 1971.
Leuchtenburg, William E. Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932–1940. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1963.
_____. A Troubled Feast: American Society Since 1945. Boston: Little, Brown, 1973.
Levy, Eugene, James Weldon Johnson: Black Leader, Black Voice. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1973.
Lewis, David Levering. When Harlem Was in Vogue. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981. (A social history of the Harlem Renaissance.)
_____. W. E. B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race. New York: Henry Holt, 1993.
Lewis, Hylan. Blackways of Kent. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1955. (A study of the black subculture in a small industrial town in the Carolina piedmont region.)
Liebling, A. J. The Earl of Louisiana: The Liberal Long. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1961.
Logan, Rayford W. The Attitude of the Southern White Press Toward Negro Suffrage, 1932–1940. Washington, D.C.: Foundation Publishers, 1940.
_____. The Betrayal of the Negro: From Rutherford B. Hayes to Woodrow Wilson. New York: Collier, 1965. (Originally published in 1954 as The Negro in American Life and Thought: The Nadir, 1877–1901.)