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The Unexpected Exodus - How the Cold War Displaced One Southern Town (Paperback)
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The Unexpected Exodus - How the Cold War Displaced One Southern Town (Paperback)
Series: Southern Classics
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This is a firsthand account of a bomb factory's impact on small
town life in South Carolina. First published in 1971, grade school
teacher Louise Cassels' poignant memoir recounts the displacement
of the residents of Ellenton, South Carolina, in the early 1950s to
make way for the massive Savannah River Plant, a critical cold-war
nuclear weapons facility. In late 1950, amid escalating cold-war
tensions, the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission announced plans to
construct facilities to produce plutonium and tritium for use in
hydrogen bombs. One such facility, the SRP, was built at a cost of
$1.3 billion at a site that encompassed more than 315 square miles
in South Carolina's Barnwell, Allendale, and Aiken counties. Some
fifteen hundred families residing in small communities within the
new plant's borders were forced to leave their homes. The largest
of the affected towns was Ellenton, with a population of 760
residents. Detailing the period of evacuation and resettlement,
""The Unexpected Exodus"" recalls the dramatic personal
consequences of the cold war on the South through the narrative of
one uprooted family. Cassels touches on such enduring historical
themes as southerners' sense of place and antipathy toward the
federal government as she struggles to maintain equilibrium through
life-changing circumstances. Throughout the text her extreme pride
and patriotism are set against profound feelings of bitterness and
loss. Frederickson's new introduction to this edition places
Cassels' compelling tale against the historical backdrop of the
cold war's impact on the South, a history often lost in the shadow
of more widely read civil-rights narratives from the same era.
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