There Goes My Everything: White Southerners in the Age of Civil Rights, 1945-1975
Dec 2008 · Vintage
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During the civil rights movement, epic battles for justice were fought in the streets, at lunch counters, and in the classrooms of the American South. Just as many battles were waged, however, in the hearts and minds of ordinary white southerners whose world became unrecognizable to them. Jason Sokol’s vivid and unprecedented account of white southerners’ attitudes and actions, related in their own words, reveals in a new light the contradictory mixture of stubborn resistance and pragmatic acceptance–as well as the startling and unexpected personal transformations–with which they greeted the enforcement of legal equality.
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October 16, 2010
I am reading this book for a fascinating class on the Civil Rights movement. As I am finishing I find a lot of my high hopes for the book unfulfilled. The book does provide interesting insights into the reactions of white southerners to Civil Rights, but it tries to do entirely TOO much. The reader would be better served with more depth into a particular issue: voting rights or desegregation. Instead, there are literally hundreds of citations to make the same point, and far too large a span of time is covered. The content is excellent , but lacks organization and focus, and would be a difficult read for anybody without a good historical background. While Sokol has some amazing content, the book is difficult to wade through to find it. I am disappointed since it is a subject so rarely addressed in history books, and is an essential component to understanding the Civil Rights movement
About the author
Jason Sokol grew up in Springfield, Massachusetts, and attended Oberlin College and the University of California, Berkeley, where he received his doctorate in American history. He lives in Ithaca, New York, and teaches at Cornell University.
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