Revolt Of The Rednecks

Author : Albert D. Kirwan
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813150736
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Revolt of the Rednecks written by Albert D. Kirwan and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-07-11 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In post-Civil War years agriculture in Mississippi, as elsewhere, was in a depressed condition. The price of cotton steadily declined, and the farmer was hard put to meet the payments on his mortgage. At the same time the corporate and banking interests of the state seemed to prosper. There were reasons for this beyond the ken of the poor hill farmer -- the redneck, as he was popularly termed. But the redneck came to regard this situation -- chronic depression for him while his mercantile neighbor prospered -- as a conspiracy against him, a conspiracy which was aided and abetted by the leaders of his party. Revolt of the Rednecks: Mississippi Politics 1876--1925 is a study of the struggle of the redneck to gain control of the Democratic Party in orger to effect reforms which would improve his lot. He was to be led into many bypaths and sluggish streams before he was to realize his aim in the election of Vardaman to the governorship in 1903. For almost two decades thereafter the rednecks were to hold undisputed control of the state government. The period was marked by many reforms and by some improvement in the economic plight of the farmer -- an improvement largely owing to factors which were uninfluenced by state politics. The period closes in 1925 with the repudiation and defeat at the polls of the farmers' trusted leaders, Vardaman and Bilbo.

Author : Albert D. Kirwan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780758167804
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Revolt of the Rednecks written by Albert D. Kirwan and published by . This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Albert Dennis Kirwan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780844612652
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Revolt of the rednecks written by Albert Dennis Kirwan and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of the struggle of the redneck (hill farmer) to gain control of the Democratic party, in order to better his lot.

Author : Thomas Sowell
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1459602218
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Rednecks and White Liberals written by Thomas Sowell and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-09-17 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This explosive new book challenges many of the long-prevailing assumptions about blacks, about Jews, about Germans, about slavery, and about education. Plainly written, powerfully reasoned, and backed with a startling array of documented facts, Black Rednecks and White Liberals takes on not only the trendy intellectuals of our times but also suc...

Author : Chester M. Morgan
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807124321
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Redneck Liberal written by Chester M. Morgan and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1999-03-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Theodore Glimore Bilbo was, is, and evermore shall be God or Satan. He dwelled—dwells— in heaven or hell, but never in limbo.” So wrote A. Wigfall Green almost a quarter of a century ago, and so remains the popular perception of this colorful and controversial symbol of a faded era, though current opinion would tip the scales heavily in favor of the satanic and hellish. Theodore Bilbo is remembered almost exclusively as the archangel of white supremacy. His reputation as perhaps the vilest purveyor of racist rhetoric is richly deserved in light of his vehement opposition to the black civil rights movement that emerged during the last years of his career as United States senator from Mississippi. Yet, as Chester Morgan demonstrates in Redneck Liberal, the conventional image of Bilbo as merely a racist demagogue paints only half the picture. Bilbo served a full term in the Senate (1934-1940) before his political career was consumed by racism, and it is that period that is the focus of this study by Morgan. Bilbo’s first term in the Senate coincided with Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal. Morgan provides a thorough treatment of Bilbo’s activities in Washington and his large role in Mississippi politics. In the Senate Bilbo consistently gave strong support to virtually all New Deal social and economic programs, such as relief for the unemployed, social security, public housing, and fair labor standards, while at the same time championing the cause of the nation’s small farmers in every way he could. His crude and often repulsive style may have antagonized the more sophisticated liberal academics and bureaucrats of the time, but his first-term voting record would have been the envy of any urban New Dealer. Morgan’s early chapters provide background on Bilbo’s long career prior to his election to the Senate (he served twice as governor of Mississippi, for instance) and also on the main trends in Mississippi politics from Reconstruction to the 1930s. An epilogue seeks to explain the well-known, virulently racist attitude of his final years. Throughout the book Morgan manages to capture the flamboyance of Bilbo’s personality and the vitality and intricacy of Mississippi politics. Redneck Liberal—only the second book on Bilbo ever to be published—draws heavily on Bilbo’s personal correspondence, the papers of Franklin Roosevelt, and other primary sources.

Author : Stephen Cresswell
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1617030376
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rednecks, Redeemers, and Race written by Stephen Cresswell and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2021-01-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the paradoxical time when the state's technology advanced and race relations deteriorated

Author : Charles D. Anderson
Publisher : GeneralStore PublishingHouse
ISBN 13 : 9781896182452
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bluebloods & Rednecks written by Charles D. Anderson and published by GeneralStore PublishingHouse. This book was released on 1996 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Battle of Windmill, eastern Ontario counties of Leeds Grenville political violence in 1820 and 1830.

Author : Jim Goad
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0684838648
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Redneck Manifesto written by Jim Goad and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1998-05-05 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "The Redneck Manifesto", Goad elucidates redneck politics, religion, and values in his own unique way. "A furious, profane, smart, and hilariously smart-aleck defense of working-class white culture".--"Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel".

Author : Dorothy Overstreet Pratt
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496815475
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sowing the Wind written by Dorothy Overstreet Pratt and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2017-11-06 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1890, Mississippi called a convention to rewrite its constitution. That convention became the singular event that marked the state's transition from the nineteenth century to the twentieth and set the path for the state for decades to come. The primary purpose of the convention was to disfranchise African American voters as well as some poor whites. The result was a document that transformed the state for the next century. In Sowing the Wind, Dorothy Overstreet Pratt traces the decision to call that convention, examines the delegates" decisions, and analyzes the impact of their new constitution. Pratt argues the constitution produced a new social structure, which pivoted the state's culture from a class-based system to one centered upon race. Though state leaders had not anticipated this change, they were savvy in their manipulation of the issues. The new constitution effectively filled the goal of disfranchisement. Moreover, unlike the constitutions of many other southern states, it held up against attack for over seventy years. It also hindered the state socially and economically well into the twentieth century.

Author : Don Harrison Doyle
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 9780807849316
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Faulkner's County written by Don Harrison Doyle and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This history of Lafayette County, Mississippi, uses William Faulkner's rich fictional portrait of a place and its people to illuminate the past. From the arrival of Europeans in Chickasaw Indian territory in 1540 to Faulkner's death in 1962, Doyle chronicles more than four centuries of local history. 27 illustrations. 3 maps.