Speak Now Against the Day

by John Egerton

  _____. A Scholar’s Conscience. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992. (Selected writings, 1942–1977, from the pen of a perceptive critic of American and Southern history and culture; edited and introduced by Faith Berry.)

  Reed, John Shelton. The Enduring South: Subcultural Persistence in Mass Society. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1972.

  _____. One South: An Ethnic Approach to Regional Culture. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1982.

  Reed, Linda. Simple Decency and Common Sense: The Southern Conference Movement, 1938–1963. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991.

  Robertson, Ben. Red Hills and Cotton: An Upcountry Memory. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1942. Reprint, with a biographical sketch of the author by Wright Bryan, 1960.

  Robinson, Jo Ann Gibson. The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1987. (Memoir by a leader of the Women’s Political Council, an organization of Alabama that black women founded in 1946 to work for the eradication of race and gender discrimination.)

  Roland, Charles P. The Improbable Era: The South Since World War II. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1975.

  Roller, David C., and Robert W. Twyman, eds. The Encyclopedia of Southern History. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1979.

  Roosevelt, Eleanor. This I Remember. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1949. (A memoir.)

  Roper, John Herbert. C. Vann Woodward, Southerner. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1987.

  Rosengarten, Theodore. All God’s Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974. (The real-life odyssey of Ned Cobb, an Alabama sharecropper.)

  Rowan, Carl T. South of Freedom. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1952. (A black journalist’s account of a journey through his native region.)

  _____. Breaking Barriers: A Memoir. Boston: Little, Brown, 1991.

  _____. Dream Makers, Dream Breakers: The World of Justice Thurgood Marshall. Boston: Little, Brown, 1993.

  Rubin, Louis D., Jr. A Gallery of Southerners. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1982.

  _____, ed. The American South: Portrait of a Culture. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1980. (Essays on the Southern mystique.)

  Salmond, John A. A Southern Rebel: The Life and Times of Aubrey Willis Williams, 1890–1965. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1983.

  _____. Miss Lucy of the CIO: The Life and Times of Lucy Randolph Mason, 1882–1959. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1988.

  _____. Conscience of a Lawyer: Clifford J. Durr and American Liberties, 1899–1975. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1990.

  Sarratt, Reed. The Ordeal of Desegregation: The First Decade. New York: Harper & Row, 1966. (This volume focuses on public schools.)

  Satterly, Kenneth R. “Donald Davidson, Southern Regionalism, and the TV A.” Ph.D. diss., Brown University, 1973.

  Scales, Junius Irving, and Richard Nickson. Cause at Heart: A Former Communist Remembers. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1987.

  Scott, Anne Firor. The Southern Lady: From Pedestal to Politics, 1830–1930. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970.

  Sellers, Charles G., ed. The Southerner as American. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1960. (Essays by Dewey W. Grantham, George B. Tindall, and others.)

  Shannon, Jasper Berry. Toward a New Politics in the South. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1949.

  Shapiro, Herbert. White Violence and Black Response: From Reconstruction to Montgomery. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1988.

  Sherrill, Robert. Gothic Politics in the Deep South: Stars of the New Confederacy. New York: Grossman, 1968. (Journalistic profiles of Herman Talmadge, James Eastland, Strom Thurmond, and others.)

  Shockley, Ann Allen. Afro-American Women Writers, 1746–1933: An Anthology and Critical Guide. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1988.

  Shoemaker, Don, ed. With All Deliberate Speed: Segregation-Desegregation in Southern Schools. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1957. (An account, with some early history, of the Southern response to the Supreme Court’s 1954 school desegregation decision.)

  Shouse, Sarah Newman. Hillbilly Realist: Herman Clarence Nixon of Possum Trot. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1986.

  Sikora, Frank. The Judge: The Life & Opinions of Alabama’s Frank M. Johnson, Jr. Montgomery: Black Belt, 1992.

  Simkins, Francis Butler. The South Old and New: A History, 1820–1947. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1947.

  _____. A History of the South. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1953.

  Simpson, Lewis P., James Olney, and Jo Gulledge, eds. The “Southern Review” and Modern Literature, 1935–1985. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1988.

  Sims, George E. The Little Man’s Big Friend: James E. Folsom in Alabama Politics, 1946–1958. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1985.

  Singal, Daniel Joseph. The War Within: From Victorian to Modernist Thought in the South, 1919–1945. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1982.

  Sitkoff, Harvard. A New Deal for Blacks: The Emergence of Civil Rights as a National Issue. New York: Oxford University Press, 1978.

  _____. The Struggle for Black Equality, 1954–1980. New York: Hill & Wang, 1981.

  Skaggs, William H. The Southern Oligarchy: An Appeal on Behalf of the Silent Masses of Our Country Against the Despotic Rule of the Few. New York: Devin-Adair, 1924. (A volume from the genre of calls to conscience by expatriate Southern whites.)

  Smith, Bob. They Closed Their Schools: Prince Edward County, Virginia, 1951–1964. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1965.

  Smith, Frank E. Congressman from Mississippi. New York: Pantheon, 1964. (The memoir of a Southern moderate lawmaker.)

  Smith, Jessie Carney, ed. Notable Black American Women. Detroit: Gale Research, 1991.

  _____. Epic Lives: One Hundred Black Women Who Made a Difference. Detroit: Gale Research, 1993.

  Smith, Lillian. Strange Fruit. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1944. (A novel.)

  _____. Killers of the Dream. New York: W. W. Norton, 1949. Revised and enlarged edition, New York: Doubleday/Anchor, 1963.

  _____. Now Is the Time. New York: Dell, 1965. (Reflections on race and the South in light of Brown v. Board of Education.)

  Smith, Stephen A. Myth, Media, and the Southern Mind. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1985.

  Sosna, Morton. In Search of the Silent South: Southern Liberals and the Race Issue. New York: Columbia University Press, 1977.

  Southern, David W. Gunnar Myrdal and Black-White Relations. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1987.

  Sprigle, Ray. In the Land of Jim Crow. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1949.

  Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath. New York: Viking, 1939. (The modern classic novel depicting the odyssey of Oklahoma sharecroppers and tenant farmers.)

  Sternsher, Bernard, ed. The Negro in Depression and War: Prelude to Revolution, 1930–1945. Chicago: Quadrangle, 1969.

  Stone, I. F. A Nonconformist History of Our Times: The War Years, 1939–1945. Boston: Little, Brown, 1988. (A collection of the independent journalist’s columns, one in a series of volumes that also includes The Truman Era, 1945–1952 and The Haunted Fifties, 1953–1963.)

  Stott, William. Documentary Expression and Thirties America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1973.

  Strickland, Michael, Harry Davis, and Jeff Strickland, eds. The Best of Ralph McGill: Selected Columns. Atlanta: Cherokee, 1980.

  Sugg, Redding S., and George Hilton Jones. The Southern Regional Education Board: Ten Years of Regional Cooperation in Higher Education. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1960.

  Suggs, Henry Lewis, ed. The Black Press in the South, 1865–1979. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1983.

  Sullivan, Patricia Ann. “Gideon’s Southern Soldiers: New Deal Politics and Civil Rights Reform, 1933–1948.” Ph.D. diss., Emory
University, 1983.

  Talmadge, Herman E. You and Segregation. Birmingham: Vulcan, 1955. (A prominent Southern politician’s impassioned defense of white supremacy in the aftermath of the Brown decision.)

  _____. Talmadge: A Political Legacy, a Politician’s Life. Atlanta: Peachtree, 1987. (A memoir, written with Mark Royden Winchell.)

  Taylor, Paul S., and Dorothea Lange. An American Exodus: A Record of Human Erosion. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1939. (A depression-era documentary, with Lange’s photographs.)

  Taylor, Thomas E. “A Political Biography of Ellis Arnall.” Master’s thesis, Emory University, 1959.

  Terkel, Studs. Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression. New York: Pantheon, 1970.

  _____. The Good War. New York: Pantheon, 1984. (An oral history of World War II.)

  _____. Race: How Blacks and Whites Think and Feel About the American Obsession. New York: New Press, 1992.

  Terrill, Tom E., and Jerrold Hirsch, eds. Such as Us: Southern Voices of the Thirties. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1978.

  Tindall, George B. The Emergence of the New South, 1913–1945. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1967.

  _____. The Disruption of the Solid South. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1972.

  _____. The Ethnic Southerners. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1976.

  Tirro, Frank. Jazz: A History. New York: W. W. Norton, 1977.

  Truman, Margaret. Harry S Truman. New York: William Morrow, 1973.

  Turner, William H., and Edward J. Cabbell, eds. Blacks in Appalachia. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1985.

  Twelve Southerners. I’ll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Tradition. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1930.

  Twitty, W. Bradley. Y’ all Come: “Big Jim” Folsom. Nashville: Hermitage, 1962. (A biography of Alabama’s postwar governor.)

  Tygiel, Jules. Baseball’s Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy. New York: Oxford University Press, 1983.

  Ulanov, Barry. Duke Ellington. New York: Creative Age, 1946.

  U.S. House of Representatives, 80th Congress, Committee on Un-American Activities. Report on the Southern Conference for Human Welfare: Investigation of Un-American Activities in the United States. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1947.

  U.S. Senate, 83rd Congress, Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary. Hearings on Subversive Influence in the Southern Conference Educational Fund: New Orleans, La., March 18–20, 1954. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1954.

  Vance, Rupert B. Human Geography of the South: A Study in Regional Resources and Human Adequacy. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1932.

  _____. All These People: The Nation’s Human Resources in the South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1945.

  Waldron, Ann. Hodding Carter: The Reconstruction of a Racist. Chapel Hill: Algonquin, 1993.

  Walker, Margaret. Richard Wright, Daemonic Genius: A Portrait of the Man, a Critical Look at His Work. New York: Warner, 1988.

  Warren, Robert Penn. All the King’s Men. New York: Random House, 1946. (A novel inspired by the life of Huey Long.)

  _____. Segregation: The Inner Conflict in the South. New York: Random House, 1956.

  _____. Who Speaks for the Negro? New York: Random House, 1965.

  Watters, Pat, and Reese Cleghorn. Climbing Jacob’s Ladder: The Arrival of Negroes in Southern Politics. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1967.

  Weatherford, W. D. Negro Life in the South: Present Conditions and Needs. New York: Association Press, 1910.

  Weatherford, W. D., and Charles S. Johnson. Race Relations: Adjustment of Whites and Negroes in the United States. Boston: D. C. Heath, 1934.

  Weaver, Robert C. Negro Labor: A National Problem. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1946.

  Weglyn, Michi. Years of Infamy: The Untold Story of America’s Concentration Camps. New York: William Morrow, 1976.

  West, Don. Clods of Southern Earth. New York: Boni & Gaer, 1946. (A volume of poetry.)

  Whisnant, David E. Modernizing the Mountaineer: People, Power, and Planning in Appalachia. Boone, N.C.: Appalachian Consortium, 1980.

  _____. All That Is Native and Fine: The Politics of Culture in an American Region. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1983. (Appalachian social history.)

  White, Helen, and Redding S. Sugg, Jr., eds. From the Mountain. Memphis: Memphis State University Press, 1972. (An anthology of articles from the three Georgia magazines edited by Lillian Smith and Paula Snelling, 1936–1945, with an introduction by the book’s editors, White and Sugg.)

  White, Walter. Rope and Faggot: A Biography of Judge Lynch. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929.

  _____. A Rising Wind. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran, 1945. (Seeing race and color as a postwar issue worldwide.)

  _____. A Man Called White. New York: Viking, 1948. (An autobiography.)

  _____. How Far the Promised Land? New York: Viking, 1955.

  Wigginton, Eliot, ed. Refuse to Stand Silently By: An Oral History of Grass Roots Activism in America, 1921–1964. New York: Doubleday, 1991. (Based on interviews with dozens of people with ties to the Highlander Folk School in Tennessee.)

  Wilkinson, J. Harvie. Harry Byrd and the Changing Face of Virginia Politics, 1945–1966. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1968.

  Williams, Martin. The Jazz Tradition. New York: Oxford University Press, 1970. Revised and expanded, 1983.

  Williams, Roger. Sing a Sad Song: The Life of Hank Williams. 2nd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1981.

  Williams, T. Harry. Romance and Realism in Southern Politics. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1961.

  _____. Huey Long. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1969.

  Williamson, Joel. The Crucible of Race: Black-White Relations in the American South Since Emancipation. New York: Oxford University Press, 1984. Condensed version, titled A Rage for Order, New York: Oxford, 1986.

  Wilson, Charles Reagan, William Ferris, et al. Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1989.

  Wolters, Raymond. Negroes and the Great Depression: The Problem of Economic Recovery. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1970.

  Woodward, C. Vann. Origins of the New South, 1877–1913. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1951.

  _____. The Strange Career of Jim Crow. New York: Oxford University Press, 1955. Revised, with a new preface by the author, 1966.

  _____. The Burden of Southern History. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1960. (Subsequent editions have included some revisions and additions.)

  _____. American Counterpoint: Slavery and Racism in the North-South Dialogue. Boston: Little, Brown, 1971. (Essays on race.)

  _____. Thinking Back: The Perils of Writing History. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1986. (Reflections on a long career by the best-known contemporary historian of the South.)

  Woofter, Thomas J. Southern Race Progress: The Wavering Color Line. Washington, D.C.: Public Affairs Press, 1957.

  Workman, William D., Jr. The Case for the South. New York: Devin-Adair, 1960. (A South Carolina editor’s defense of segregation.)

  Wright, Gavin. Old South, New South: Revolutions in the Southern Economy Since the Civil War. New York: Basic Books, 1986.

  Wright, George C., and Martin G. White. A History of Blacks in Kentucky: In Pursuit of Equality, 1890–1980, vol. 2. Frankfort: Kentucky Historical Society, 1992.

  Wright, Marion A., and Arnold Shankman. Human Rights Odyssey. Durham, N.C.: Moore, 1978.

  Wright, Richard. Uncle Tom’s Children: Five Long Stories. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1940. (An earlier edition, published in 1938, contained four novellas; this expanded version also includes “The Ethics of Living Jim Crow,” Wright’s clearly autobiographical sketch of a black youngster’s life in Arkansas, Mississippi, and Me
mphis.)

  _____. Native Son. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1940. (A fictional account of a black migrant Southerner’s undoing in the urban North.)

  _____. 12 Million Black Voices: A Folk History of the Negro in the United States. New York: Viking, 1941. (An essay with Farm Security Administration photographs.)

  _____. Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1945. (Nonfictional remembrance and indictment.)

  Wyatt, Wilson W. Whistle Stops: Adventures in Public Life. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1985. (The autobiography of a New Deal–era politician from Louisville.)

  Wynes, Charles E., ed. Forgotten Voices: Dissenting Southerners in an Age of Conformity. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1967.

  Yarbrough, Tinsley E. A Passion for Justice: J. Waties Waring and Civil Rights. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.

  Young, James O. Black Writers of the Thirties. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1973.

  Zangrando, Robert L. The NAACP Crusade Against Lynching, 1909–1950. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1980.

  Zinn, Howard. The Southern Mystique. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1964.

  _____. Postwar America: 1945–1971. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1973.

  _____, ed. New Deal Thought. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1966.