Standing against dragons: three southern lawyers in an era of fear
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Main Author: Brown, Sarah Hart (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Baton Rouge Louisiana State University Press ©1998
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-283) and index
"Examines the careers of three exceptional lawyers who championed civil liberties and fought for civil rights in the two decades after World War II. John Coe of Pensacola, Florida, Clifford Durr of Montgomery, Alabama, and Benjamin Smith of New Orleans became southern dissenters, resisting both the excessive zeal of the anti-Communist right and the oppression embodied in southern segregation laws."--Jacket
The problemed peace: civil libertarianism, antilibertarianism, and the cold war doctrine -- On becoming southern liberals: prelude to 1948 -- Crossroads: progressive politics and other pipe dreams, 1948-1950 -- "Comes now Willie McGee": communist causes in southern context, 1950-1954 -- Congressional offensive, 1954: the SCEF investigation and its echoes -- After Brown: congressional anti-communism and southern "sedition," 1954-1961 -- "Radicals" and "Respectables": the cold war against "outside agitators," 1958-1963 -- "They were the real subversives": the Dombrowski case and the Mississippi crusade, 1963-1965 -- Epilogue and conclusion: "the importance of heresy."
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 308 pages)
ISBN:0585292310
9780585292311
9780807125755

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