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- catalog abstract ""Dixie is a political and social history of the South during the second half of the twentieth century told from Curtis Wilkie's perspective as a white man intimately transformed by enormous racial and political upheavals." "Wilkie's personal take on some of the landmark events of modern American history is as engaging as it is insightful. He attended Ole Miss during the rioting in the fall of 1962, when James Meredith became the first African American to enroll in the school. After graduation, Wilkie worked in Clarksdale, Mississippi, where he met Aaron Henry, a local druggist and later the prominent head of the Mississippi NAACP. He covered the Mississippi Freedom Summer of 1964 and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party challenge at the national convention in Atlantic City, and he was a member of the biracial insurgent Democratic delegation from Mississippi seated in place of Governor John Bell Williams's delegation at the 1968 convention in Chicago. Wilkie followed Jimmy Carter's campaign for the presidency, becoming friends with Billy Carter; he covered Bill Clinton's election in 1992 and was witness to the South's startling shift from the Democratic Party to the GOP; and finally, he was there when Byron De La Beckwith was convicted for the murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers thirty-one years after the fact."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12255721.
- catalog coverage "Mississippi Biography.".
- catalog coverage "Mississippi Politics and government 1951-".
- catalog coverage "Mississippi Race relations.".
- catalog coverage "Southern States Civilization 20th century.".
- catalog coverage "Southern States Race relations.".
- catalog coverage "Southern States Social conditions 1945-".
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description ""Dixie is a political and social history of the South during the second half of the twentieth century told from Curtis Wilkie's perspective as a white man intimately transformed by enormous racial and political upheavals." "Wilkie's personal take on some of the landmark events of modern American history is as engaging as it is insightful. He attended Ole Miss during the rioting in the fall of 1962, when James Meredith became the first African American to enroll in the school. After graduation, Wilkie worked in Clarksdale, Mississippi, where he met Aaron Henry, a local druggist and later the prominent head of the Mississippi NAACP. He covered the Mississippi Freedom Summer of 1964 and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party challenge at the national convention in Atlantic City, and he was a member of the biracial insurgent Democratic delegation from Mississippi seated in place of Governor John Bell Williams's delegation at the 1968 convention in Chicago. Wilkie followed Jimmy Carter's campaign for the presidency, becoming friends with Billy Carter; he covered Bill Clinton's election in 1992 and was witness to the South's startling shift from the Democratic Party to the GOP; and finally, he was there when Byron De La Beckwith was convicted for the murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers thirty-one years after the fact."--Jacket.".
- catalog description ""We all knew Beckwiths" -- Natural Rebels -- "We are the rednecks!" -- "This Communist edict" -- "Forget, Hell!" -- Never! -- "You can pronounce hero, can't you?" -- "A publicity stunt" -- "We don't have to beg anymore" -- "Don't laugh folks, Jesus was a poor man" -- "Free at last!" -- Backlash -- "I love Mr. Carter as a white man" -- "From the deserts of the Deep South" -- "We have wasted too much time" -- Sahafi -- "We'd all love to see you again" -- "A beautiful, fantastic experience" -- "Put a Code Four on him" -- "There was no meanness."".
- catalog extent "351 p., [8] p. of plates :".
- catalog hasFormat "Dixie.".
- catalog identifier "0684872854".
- catalog isFormatOf "Dixie.".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Scribner,".
- catalog relation "Dixie.".
- catalog spatial "Mississippi Biography.".
- catalog spatial "Mississippi Politics and government 1951-".
- catalog spatial "Mississippi Race relations.".
- catalog spatial "Southern States Civilization 20th century.".
- catalog spatial "Southern States Race relations.".
- catalog spatial "Southern States Social conditions 1945-".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "975/.043 21".
- catalog subject "F216.2 .W55 2001".
- catalog subject "Journalists United States Biography.".
- catalog subject "Wilkey family.".
- catalog subject "Wilkie, Curtis.".
- catalog tableOfContents ""We all knew Beckwiths" -- Natural Rebels -- "We are the rednecks!" -- "This Communist edict" -- "Forget, Hell!" -- Never! -- "You can pronounce hero, can't you?" -- "A publicity stunt" -- "We don't have to beg anymore" -- "Don't laugh folks, Jesus was a poor man" -- "Free at last!" -- Backlash -- "I love Mr. Carter as a white man" -- "From the deserts of the Deep South" -- "We have wasted too much time" -- Sahafi -- "We'd all love to see you again" -- "A beautiful, fantastic experience" -- "Put a Code Four on him" -- "There was no meanness."".
- catalog title "Dixie : a personal odyssey through events that shaped the modern South / Curtis Wilkie.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "text".