Toward the Meeting of the Waters: Currents in the Civil Rights Movement of South Carolina During the Twentieth CenturyWinfred B. Moore, Orville Vernon Burton Toward the Meeting of the Waters brings 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. The volumes opening section assesses 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. The next sections 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. The next section forms 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 who bring this story to the present day. |
Contents
Comments | 22 |
Questions and Answers | 29 |
Part 2Aggressors | 37 |
White and Black Anticipations | 50 |
The Lowman Lynchings of 1926 | 65 |
State Law Government and Citizen | 93 |
When the Ku Klux Klan Tried to Kill Rhythm | 119 |
Part 3Reformers | 143 |
The Desegregation of Clemson | 274 |
Memory History and the Desegregation of Greenville | 286 |
The African American Struggle | 300 |
Retrospectives | 317 |
Questions and Answers | 330 |
Voices from the Civil Rights Movement in South Carolina | 337 |
The Orangeburg Massacre | 359 |
Orangeburg 19682003 | 373 |
The Impact of 1940s Civil Rights Activism on the States 1960s Civil Rights | 156 |
The Briggs v Elliott School Segregation Case | 176 |
Freedom Riding in the Carolinas | 201 |
The Developmental Leadership of Septima Clark 19541967 | 222 |
Part 4Resisters | 239 |
Could History Repeat Itself? The Prospects for a Second Reconstruction | 252 |
The White Citizens Councils of Orangeburg County South Carolina | 261 |
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