Fighting the devil in Dixie [[electronic resource] ] : how civil rights activists took on the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama / / Wayne Greenhaw

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910790620003321
• Autore: Greenhaw Wayne <1940->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Chicago, : Lawrence Hill Books, 2011
• ISBN: 1-56976-823-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (353 p.)
• Disciplina: 323.1196/0730761
• Soggetti: African Americans - Civil rights - Alabama - History - 20th century; Alabama Race relations History 20th century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Willie's first day -- The legacy of Willie Edwards -- Klan on trial -- Hound-dog determined -- "Fight everything segregated" -- The making of a segregationist -- The pair from Howard -- "Segregation forever!" -- Education of a liberal -- Country boy lawyer -- The Alabama story -- Requiem for Jimmie Lee Jackson -- Don Quixote of the South -- The southern courier -- The rise of John Hulett -- Southern Poverty Law Center -- The people's attorney general -- Breaking the Klan -- "Forgive me, for I have sinned' -- "Like a mighty stream".
• Sommario/riassunto: Wayne Greenhaw recounts his life and experiences as a journalist covering the civil rights movement in Montgomery, Alabama, describing his interviews with Klan members, detectives, victims, civil rights leaders, and politicians, and discussing the history of Governor George C. Wallace.