South Carolina in the Modern Age

Name: South Carolina in the Modern Age
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ISBN: 9780872498310

ISBN-10: 087249831X

ISBN-13: 9780872498310

Edition: 1992

Authors: Walter Edgar

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List price: $26.99
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Publication date: 10/30/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 182
Size: 8.50" wide x 11.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Illustrations


Preface


Acknowledgments



A Political Bullring, 1891-1916


Some Background: The United States in 1890


South Carolina in 1890


The Rise of Ben Tillman


Legalizing Jim Crow


The Coming of the Mills


A Divided Electorate


The Blease Phenomenon


The Progressives


The Threat of Violence


Richard I. Manning


The Mill Problem


A New Order



A Land of Monuments and Memories, 1916-1941


"The War to End All Wars"


The Farm Problem


"The Draining Years on the Cotton Farms"


Exodus


Hard Times in the Textile Industry


A Shortage of Ready Cash


Boosters and Tourists


Cherishing the Past


Preserving the Past


Black and White: Slogans and Reality


"Ol' Car'lina"


The Agrarian Tradition


"South Carolina Upon a Pedestal"


The Great Depression


The New Deal in South Carolina


The Political Scene


South Carolina and FDR



Ignited by War, 1941-1966


World War II


Coming Home


The Sky Didn't Fall


"Killbillies" and "Opera in Greenville"


"The Spark of Industrial Development"


A Cooperative State Government


"A Two-Fisted Competitive Spirit"


Town and Country


The Price of Prejudice


South Carolina Reacts to the Brown Decision


"We Shall Overcome"


The Year of Decision: 1963


The Confederate War Centennial


The Emergence of Two-Party Politics


Some Things Changed; Some Things Didn't



Changes and Challenges, 1966-1991


The Decline of Rural South Carolina


"Bubba Gate," Lost Trust and Reform


Two-Party Politics


"Adjusting to New Circumstances"


Private Schools


Pennies for Education


Questioning Plastics in Beaufort - and Development


Deja Vu With A Difference


South Carolinians Abroad


South Carolina Then and Now


A South Carolina Chronology, 1890-1991


Notes


Suggested Readings


Index