In 1951, Carl Rowan, a young African American journalist from Minneapolis, journeyed six thousand miles through the South to report on the reality of everyday life for blacks in the region. He sought out the hot spots of racial tension--including Columbia, Tennessee, the scene of a 1946 race riot, and Birmingham, Alabama, which he found to be a brutally racist city--and returned to the setting of his more personal trials: McMinnville, Tennessee, his boyhood home. In this "balance sheet of American race relations," Rowan ...
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In 1951, Carl Rowan, a young African American journalist from Minneapolis, journeyed six thousand miles through the South to report on the reality of everyday life for blacks in the region. He sought out the hot spots of racial tension--including Columbia, Tennessee, the scene of a 1946 race riot, and Birmingham, Alabama, which he found to be a brutally racist city--and returned to the setting of his more personal trials: McMinnville, Tennessee, his boyhood home. In this "balance sheet of American race relations," Rowan plots the racial mood of the South and describes simply but vividly the discrimination he encountered daily at hotels, restaurants, and railroad stations, on trains and on buses. Originally published in 1952 and long out of print, South of Freedom is a first-rate account of what it was like to live as a second-class citizen, to experience the segregation, humiliation, danger, stereotypes, economic exploitation, and taboos that were all part of life for African Americans in the 1940s and 1950s. For this edition, Douglas Brinkley provides a new introduction, incorporating recent interviews with Rowan to place the work in the context of its time. An engaging, disturbing look at the opinions of the time on the "Negro problem," Rowan's tales of travel in the South under Jim Crow are especially valuable today as a means of seeing how far we have advanced--and fallen short--in forty-five years.
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VG in G DJ. Stirring personal report of an ace black journalist who returned to his native south to make a 6000-mile tour and ask. Dangerous questions. Few small tears to DJ edges.
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Good. Ships in a BOX from Central Missouri! May not include working access code. Will not include dust jacket. Has used sticker(s) and some writing or highlighting. UPS shipping for most packages, (Priority Mail for AK/HI/APO/PO Boxes).
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Very good. No dust jacket. viii, 270 p. 22 cm. Book Condition: very good. DJ Condition: no dj. Light fading and soiling to cover boards. Interior pages are clean. Tight binding. Sharp corners.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Reprint. Very good in an about Very good dust jacket. Some soiling/ edges and corners of jacket bumped and rubbed w. Minor chipping at spine ends /minor fading at edges. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.
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Book. Octavo; G/no DJ; Hardcover w/out DJ; Spine, brown with green print; Boards in brown cloth, mild wear to corners and spine caps, light shelfwear; Text block has blue-tinted top edge, tanning to endpapers, name stamp on front endpapers, text clean and tight; Inscribed in ink by the author on the half-title page; viii, 270 pages. NOTE: Shelved in Room X, Case #5. 1327398. FP New Rockville Stock.
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