(Un)furl that banner: the response of white southerners to the Civil War Centennial of 1961-1965.

From: Journal of Southern History | Date: November 1, 2002| Author: Cook, Robert | Copyright information

BY THE LATE 1950s THE AMERICAN SOUTH HAD REACHED ANOTHER crossroads in its eventful history. De jure segregation, a cornerstone of southern life in the first half of the twentieth century, was under attack. Powerful instruments of change such as economic modernization, federal intervention, and a burgeoning black-led civil rights movement had begun to weaken the grip that segregation exerted on the lives of local people. In recent years some historians have added the agency of white...

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