{"product_id":"toward-the-meeting-of-the-waters-currents-in-the-civil-rights-movement-of-south-carolina-during-the-twentieth-century-paperback","title":"Toward the Meeting of the Waters: Currents in the Civil Rights Movement of South Carolina During the Twentieth Century - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eWinfred B. Moore\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eOrville Vernon Burton\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2009 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e Outstanding Academic Title - A provocative look into civil rights progress in the Palmetto State from activists, statesmen, and historians\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eToward the Meeting of the Waters\u003c\/i\u003e represents a watershed moment in civil rights history--bringing together voices of leading historians alongside recollections from central participants to provide the first comprehensive history of the civil rights movement as experienced by black and white South Carolinians. Edited by Winfred B. Moore Jr. and Orville Vernon Burton, this work originated with a highly publicized landmark conference on civil rights held at the Citadel in Charleston.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe volume opens with an assessment of the transition of South Carolina leaders from defiance to moderate enforcement of federally mandated integration and includes commentary by former governor and U.S. senator Ernest F. Hollings and former governor John C. West. Subsequent chapters recall defining moments of white-on-black violence and aggression to set the context for understanding the efforts of reformers such as Levi G. Byrd and Septima Poinsette Clark and for interpreting key episodes of white resistance. Emerging from these essays is arresting evidence that, although South Carolina did not experience as much violence as many other southern states, the civil rights movement here was more fiercely embattled than previously acknowledged. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe section of retrospectives serves as an oral history of the era as it was experienced by a mixture of locally and nationally recognized participants, including historians such as John Hope Franklin and Tony Badger as well as civil rights activists Joseph A. De Laine Jr., Beatrice Brown Rivers, Charles McDew, Constance Curry, Matthew J. Perry Jr., Harvey B. Gantt, and Cleveland Sellers Jr. The volume concludes with essays by historians Gavin Wright, Dan Carter, and Charles Joyner, who bring this story to the present day and examine the legacy of the civil rights movement in South Carolina from a modern perspective.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eToward the Meeting of the Waters\u003c\/i\u003e also includes thirty-seven photographs from the period, most of them by Cecil Williams and many published here for the first time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eA provocative look into civil rights progress in the Palmetto State from activists, statesmen, and historians\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOrville Vernon Burton\u003c\/b\u003e is the Burroughs Distinguished Professor of Southern History and Culture at Coastal Carolina University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 496\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.2 x 8.7 x 5.6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 01, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47469044367538,"sku":"9781570039713","price":68.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/377056b581ee46dd844c098224ef48af.webp?v=1779063695","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/toward-the-meeting-of-the-waters-currents-in-the-civil-rights-movement-of-south-carolina-during-the-twentieth-century-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}