Defining the Peace World War II Veterans, Race, and the Remaking of Southern Political Tradition

Name: Defining the Peace World War II Veterans, Race, and the Remaking of Southern Political Tradition
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ISBN: 9780807855782

ISBN-10: 0807855782

ISBN-13: 9780807855782

Edition: 2004

Authors: Jennifer E. Brooks

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In the aftermath of World War II, Georgia's veterans--black, white, liberal, reactionary, pro-union, and anti-union--all found that service in the war enhanced their sense of male, political, and racial identity, but often in contradictory ways. In Defining the Peace, Jennifer E. Brooks shows how veterans competed in a protracted and sometimes violent struggle to determine the complex character of Georgia's postwar future. Brooks finds that veterans shaped the key events of the era, including the gubernatorial campaigns of both Eugene Talmadge and Herman Talmadge, the defeat of entrenched political machines in Augusta and Savannah, the terrorism perpetrated against black citizens, the CIO's…

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List price: $37.50
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 11/29/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 280
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.62" tall
Weight: 0.946




Introduction : World War II veterans and the politics of postwar change in Georgia



The ballot must be our weapon : black veterans and the politics of racial change



The question of majority rule : white veterans and the politics of progressive reform



Is this what we fought the war for? : union veterans and the politics of labor



We are not radicals, neither are we reactionaries : good government veterans and the politics of modernization



Hitler is not dead but has found refuge in Georgia : the general assembly of 1947 and the limits of progress