Speak Now Against the Day

by John Egerton

  _____, ed. What the Negro Wants. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1944. (Fourteen essays by noted black conservatives, moderates, and liberals, including Mary M. Bethune, W. E. B. Du Bois, A. Philip Randolph, Frederick D. Patterson, and Langston Hughes.)

  Logan, Rayford W., and Michael R. Winston, eds. Dictionary of American Negro Biography. New York: W. W. Norton, 1982.

  Logue, Calvin M., ed. Ralph McGill: Editor and Publisher. 2 vols. Durham, N.C.: Moore, 1969. (A collection of the noted Atlanta journalist’s writings.)

  _____, ed. Southern Encounters: Southerners of Note in Ralph McGill’s South. Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 1983.

  Logue, Calvin M., and Howard Dorgan, eds. The Oratory of Southern Demagogues. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1981.

  Lomax, Alan. The Land Where the Blues Began. New York: Pantheon, 1993.

  Lomax, Louis E. The Negro Revolt. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1962. (An expatriate black Georgian’s perspective on racial and social issues.)

  Lorant, Stefan. The Glorious Burden: The American Presidency. New York: Harper & Row, 1968.

  Loveland, Anne C. Lillian Smith: A Southerner Confronting the South. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1986.

  Lumpkin, Katharine Du Pre. The South in Progress. New York: International, 1940. (A social scientist’s measure of Southern maturation in the waning days of the depression.)

  _____. The Making of a Southerner. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1947. (A memoir.)

  Lyons, Mary E. Sorrow’s Kitchen: The Life and Folklore of Zora Neale Hurston. New York: Scribner’s, 1990.

  Mains, Frances Helen, and Grace Loucks Elliott. From Deep Roots: The Story of the YWCA’s Religious Dimensions. New York: National Board of the YWCA, 1974.

  Malone, Bill C. Country Music, U.S.A. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1968. Revised edition, 1985.

  _____. Southern Music, American Music. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1979.

  Manchester, William. The Glory and the Dream: A Narrative History of America, 1932–1972. Boston: Little, Brown, 1974.

  Mangione, Jerre. The Dream and the Deal: The Federal Writers’ Project, 1935–1943. Boston: Little, Brown, 1972.

  Marable, Manning. Race, Reform, and Rebellion: The Second Reconstruction in Black America, 1945–1982. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1984.

  _____. W. E. B. Du Bois: Black Radical Democrat. Boston: Twayne, 1986.

  Marshall, F. Ray. Labor in the South. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1967.

  Martin, Charles H. The Angelo Herndon Case and Southern Justice. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1976.

  Martin, Harold H. Ralph McGill, Reporter. Boston: Atlantic/Little, Brown, 1973.

  _____. Atlanta and Environs: 1940–1976. Athens: University of Georgia Press/Atlanta Historical Society, 1987.

  Martin, John Bartlow. The Deep South Says “Never.” New York: Ballantine, 1957.

  Martin, Roscoe C., ed. TV A: The First Twenty Years. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1956.

  Mason, Lucy Randolph. To Win These Rights: A Personal Story of the CIO in the South. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1952.

  Matthews, Donald R., and James W. Prothro. Negroes and the New Southern Politics. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1966.

  Maverick, Maury. A Maverick American. New York: Covici-Friede, 1937. (A memoir.)

  Mays, Benjamin E. Seeking to Be Christian in Race Relations. New York: Friendship, 1957.

  _____. Born to Rebel: An Autobiography. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1971.

  Mays, Benjamin E., and Joseph William Nicholson. The Negro’s Church. New York: Institute of Social and Religious Research, 1933. Reprint, New York: Negro Universities Press, 1969.

  McCaughan, Richard B. Socks on a Rooster: Louisiana’s Earl K. Long. Baton Rouge: Claitor’s Book Store, 1967.

  McCoy, Donald R., and Richard Ruetten. Quest and Response: Minority Rights and the Truman Administration. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1973.

  McCullers, Carson. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1940.

  McCulloch, James E., ed. Battling for Social Betterment: Proceedings of the Southern Sociological Congress, Memphis, Tennessee, May 6–10, 1914. Nashville: Southern Sociological Congress, 1914.

  McCullough, David. Truman. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1992.

  McDonald, Michael J., and John Muldowny. TV A and the Dispossessed: The Resettlement of Population in the Norris Dam Area. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1982. McDonough, Julia Anne. “Men and Women of Good Will: A History of the Commission on Interracial Cooperation and the Southern Regional Council, 1919–1954.” Ph.D. diss., University of Virginia, 1992.

  McDowell, John Patrick. The Social Gospel in the South: The Woman’s Home Mission Movement in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1886–1939. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1982.

  McGill, Ralph. The South and the Southerner. Boston: Atlantic/Little, Brown, 1963. (The region as its most famous journalist saw it in the last decade of a long career.)

  _____. No Place to Hide: The South and Human Rights. Edited, with an introduction by Calvin M. Logue. 2 vols. Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 1984. (A compilation of McGill’s journalistic essays and speeches.)

  McLaurin, Ann Mathison. “The Role of the Dixiecrats in the 1948 Election.” Ph.D. diss., University of Oklahoma, 1972.

  McMillen, Neil R. The Citizens’ Council: A History of Organized Resistance to the Second Reconstruction. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1971.

  _____. Black Mississippians in the Age of Jim Crow. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990.

  McWhiney, Grady. Southerners and Other Americans. New York: Basic Books, 1973.

  Meltzer, Milton. Langston Hughes: A Biography. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1968.

  Mencken, H. L. Prejudices, Second Series. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1920. (This volume includes his South-bashing “Sahara of the Bozart” essay.)

  Mezerik, A. G. The Revolt of the South and West. New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1946.

  Michie, Allan A., and Frank Ryhlick. Dixie Demagogues: New York: Vanguard, 1939.

  Miller, Douglas T., and Marion Nowak. The Fifties: The Way We Really Were. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1977.

  Miller, Francis Pickens. Man from the Valley: Memoirs of a 20th Century Virginian. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1971.

  Miller, Jim, ed. The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock & Roll. New York: Random House/Rolling Stone Press, 1976. Revised and updated, 1980.

  Miller, Loren. The Petitioners: The Story of the Supreme Court of the United States and the Negro. New York: Pantheon, 1966.

  Miller, Merle. Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S Truman. New York: Berkley,1973.

  Miller, Robert Moats. American Protestantism and Social Issues, 1919–1939. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1958.

  Miller, William D. Mr. Crump of Memphis. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1964.

  Minton, John D. “The New Deal in Tennessee.” Ph.D. diss., Vanderbilt University, Nashville, 1959.

  Mitchell, Broadus, and George S. Mitchell. The Industrial Revolution in the South. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1930. Reprint, New York: AMS Press, 1969. (An early look at the coming of industry to the South.)

  Mitchell, George S. Textile Unionism and the South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1932.

  Mitchell, H. L. Mean Things Happening in This Land: The Life and Times of the Southern Tenant Farmers Union. Montclair, N.J.: Allanheld, Osmun, 1979.

  _____, ed. Roll the Union On: A Pictorial History of the Southern Tenant Farmers Union. Chicago: Charles H. Kerr, 1987.

  Moon, Bucklin, ed. Primer for White Folks. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran, 1945.

  Moon, Henry Lee. Balance of Power: The Negro Vote. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1949.

  Moore, John L., ed. Congres
sional Quarterly’s Guide to U.S. Elections. 2nd ed. Washington: Congressional Quarterly, 1985.

  Morris, Aldon D. The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement: Black Communities Organizing for Change. New York: Free Press/Macmillan, 1984.

  Morrison, Joseph L. W. J. Cash, Southern Prophet: A Biography and a Reader. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1967.

  Morrow, E. Frederic. Black Man in the White House: A Diary of the Eisenhower Years by the Administrative Officer for Special Projects, the White House, 1955–1961. New York: Coward-McCann, 1963.

  _____. Forty Years a Guinea Pig. New York: Pilgrim Press, 1980.

  Murray, Albert. South to a Very Old Place. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1971. (An expatriate goes home to Alabama and the South.)

  Murray, Pauli. Song in a Weary Throat: An American Pilgrimage. New York: Harper & Row, 1987.

  _____, ed. States’ Laws on Race and Color. Cincinnati: Woman’s Division of Christian Service, Methodist Church, 1950.

  Muse, Benjamin. Ten Years of Prelude: The Story of Integration Since the Supreme Court’s 1954 Decision. New York: Viking, 1964. (Includes some earlier contextual history.)

  Myrdal, Gunnar, et al. An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy. New York: Harper & Row, 1944. (The twentieth-anniversary edition [2 vols., New York: McGraw-Hill, 1964] includes a new preface by the author and a postscript by his principal assistant, Arnold Rose.)

  Natanson, Nicholas. The Black Image in the New Deal: The Politics of FSA Photography. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1992.

  National Emergency Council. Report to the President on Economic Conditions in the South. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1938.

  Newby, I. A. Jim Crow’s Defense: Anti-Negro Thought in America, 1900–1930. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1965.

  Nichols, Charles H., ed. Arna Bontemps–Langston Hughes Letters, 1925–1967. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1980.

  Nichols, Lee. Breakthrough on the Color Front. New York: Random House, 1954. (An examination of the desegregation of the armed forces.)

  Nixon, Herman Clarence. Forty Acres and Steel Mules. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1938.

  Norrell, Robert J. Reaping the Whirlwind: The Civil Rights Movement in Tuskegee. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985.

  O’Brien, Michael. The Idea of the American South, 1920–1941. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979.

  Odum, Howard W. Southern Regions of the United States. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1936. (Principally a social science text, this volume and an accompanying manual were intended as models for a redirection of public-policy social planning in which the focus would shift from the forty-eight separate states to six interrelated regions; the Southeast, as one of the six proposed regions, included ten of the eleven old Confederate states plus Kentucky, with Texas being part of the Southwest region.)

  _____. Race and Rumors of Race. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1943.

  _____. The Way of the South: Toward the Regional Balance of America. New York: Macmillan, 1947.

  Osofsky, Gilbert, ed. The Burden of Race: A Documentary History of Negro-White Relations in America. New York: Harper & Row, 1967.

  Ottley, Roi. New World A-Coming: Inside Black America. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1943.

  _____. Black Odyssey: The Story of the Negro in America. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1948.

  _____. No Green Pastures. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1951.

  Owsley, Frank L. Plain Folk of the Old South. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1949.

  Painter, Nell Irvin. The Narrative of Hosea Hudson: His Life as a Negro Communist in the South. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1979.

  Parks, Gordon. A Choice of Weapons. New York: Harper & Row, 1965. (A memoir of the black photographer-filmmaker, who got his start in the Farm Security Administration and the Office of War Information in the New Deal.)

  Paschal, Andrew G., ed. A W. E. B. Du Bois Reader. New York: Macmillan, 1971.

  Patterson Haywood, and Earl Conrad. Scottsboro Boy. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1950.

  Pearce, John Ed. Divide and Dissent: Kentucky Politics, 1930–1963. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1987.

  Peavey, Charles D. Go Slow Now: Faulkner and the Race Question. Eugene: University of Oregon Press, 1971.

  Peeks, Edward. The Long Struggle for Black Power. New York: Scribner’s, 1971.

  Peeler, David P. Hope Among Us Yet: Social Criticism and Social Solace in Depression America. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1987.

  Peirce, Neal R. The Deep South States of America: People, Politics, and Power in Seven Deep South States. New York: W. W. Norton, 1974. (Social-political profiles of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and South Carolina, in the fashion of Gunther’s Inside U.S.A.)

  _____. The Border South States: People, Politics, and Power in the Five Border South States. New York: W. W. Norton, 1975. (Another volume in the Peirce series covering all fifty states, this one includes Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia; Texas is included in The Plains States of America.)

  Pells, Richard H. Radical Visions and American Dreams: Cultural and Social Thought in the Depression Years. New York: Harper & Row, 1973.

  Peltason, J. W. 58 Lonely Men: Southern Federal Judges and School Desegregation. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1961. (University of Illinois Press paperback editions, published in the 1970s, include additional material.)

  Pepper, Claude Denson, with Hays Gorey. Pepper: Eyewitness to a Century. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1987.

  Percy, Walker. Signposts in a Strange Land. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1991. (Essays and other previously unpublished nonfiction by the Mississippi-Louisiana novelist, collected and edited after the author’s death, with an introduction by Patrick Samway.)

  Percy, William Alexander. Lanterns on the Levee: Recollections of a Planter’s Son. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1941. (A 1973 edition, published by Louisiana State University Press, contains a new introduction by the author’s nephew, the novelist Walker Percy.)

  Perrett, Geoffrey. Days of Sadness, Years of Triumph: The American People, 1939–1945. New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1973.

  Perry, Jennings. Democracy Begins at Home: The Tennessee Fight on the Poll Tax. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1944.

  Peterkin, Julia W., and Doris Ulmann. Roll, Jordan, Roll. New York: Ballou, 1933. (Text by Peterkin, with photographs by Ulmann.)

  Pfeffer, Paula F. A. Philip Randolph, Pioneer of the Civil Rights Movement. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1990.

  Pleasants, Julian M., and Augustus M. Burns III. Frank Porter Graham and the 1950 Senate Race in North Carolina. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1990.

  Ploski, Harry A., and Roscoe C. Brown, Jr. The Negro Almanac. New York: Bellwether, 1966.

  Polk, William T. Southern Accent: From Uncle Remus to Oak Ridge. New York: William Morrow, 1953.

  Pope, Liston. Millhands and Preachers. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1942. (A study of the historical background and contemporary events surrounding the 1929 textile mill strike in Gastonia, North Carolina.)

  Poston, Ted. The Dark Side of Hopkinsville. Edited and annotated by Kathleen A. Hauke. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1991. (Short stories by a Kentucky-born New Dealer who became “the dean of black journalists.”)

  Powdermaker, Hortense. After Freedom: A Cultural Study of the Deep South. New York: Viking, 1939. (A social-anthropological study focused on Indianola, Mississippi.)

  Powell, Richard J. Homecoming: The Art and Life of William H. Johnson. Washington, D.C.: National Museum of American Art/Smithsonian, 1991. (An obscure South Carolina primitive artist’s work examined in the context of the culture from which he came.)

  Powledge, Fred. Free at Last? The Civil Rights Movement and the People Who Made It. Boston: Little, Brown, 1991.

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sp; President’s Commission on Higher Education. Higher Education for American Democracy: The Report of the President’s Commission on Higher Education. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1947. (The second of six parts in this study is titled “Equalizing and Expanding Individual Opportunity,” and deals with the problems of segregation and discrimination.)

  President’s Committee on Civil Rights. To Secure These Rights: The Report of the President’s Committee on Civil Rights. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1947.

  President’s Committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed Forces. Freedom to Serve. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950.

  Raeburn, Ben, ed. Treasury for the Free World. New York: Arco, 1946. (Essays on postwar world freedom by about sixty authors, including Carl Sandburg and Gunnar Myrdal.)

  Raines, Howell. My Soul Is Rested: Movement Days in the Deep South Remembered. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1977.

  Rainey, Glenn W. “The Race Riot of 1906 in Atlanta.” Master’s thesis, Emory University, 1929.

  Raper, Arthur F. The Tragedy of Lynching. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1933.

  _____. Preface to Peasantry: A Tale of Two Black Belt Counties. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1936. (This volume focuses on Greene and Macon counties in Georgia.)

  Raper, Arthur F., and Ira De A. Reid. Sharecroppers All. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1941.

  Raper, Arthur F., and Jack Delano. Tenants of the Almighty. New York: Macmillan, 1943. (A later look at Greene County, Georgia, with photographs by Delano.)

  Record, Wilson. The Negro in the Communist Party. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1951.

  _____. Race and Radicalism: The NAACP and the Communist Party in Conflict. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1964.

  Redding, J. Saunders. No Day of Triumph. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1942. (A black writer’s journey through the South.)

  _____. On Being Negro in America. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1951. (Personal reflections.)

  _____. The Lonesome Road: The Story of the Negro’s Past in America. Garden City, N. Y.: Doubleday, 1958.