The southern textile strikes of 1929-1931 were ferocious
struggles--thousands of millhands went on strike, the National
Guard was deployed, several people were killed and hundreds injured
and jailed. The southern press, and for a time the national press,
covered the story in enormous detail. In recounting developments,
southern reporters and editors found themselves swept up on a
painful and sweeping re-examination and reconstruction of southern
institutions and values. Whalen explores the largely unknown world
of southern journalism and investigates the ways in which the
upheaval in textiles triggered profound soul-searching among
southerners. The southern textile strikes of 1929-1931 were
ferocious struggles--thousands of millhands went on strike, the
National Guard was deployed, several people were killed and
hundreds injured and jailed. The southern press, and for a time the
national press, covered the story in enormous detail. In recounting
developments, southern reporters and editors found themselves swept
up on a painful and sweeping re-examination and reconstruction of
southern institutions and values. Whalen explores the largely
unknown world of southern journalism and investigates the ways in
which the upheaval in textiles triggered profound soul-searching
among southerners.
The worlds of labor, journalism, and the American South collide
in this study. That collision, Whalen claims, is the prelude to the
stunning social, economic, and cultural transformation of the
American South which occurred in the last half of the twentieth
century. The textile strikes shocked the mind of the South, a fact
that can readily be seen in hometown papers, as reporters and
editors ran the gamut from denial and scheming to hoping and
dreaming--sometimes even bravely confronting the truth. The
reevaluation of southern manners and mores that would culminate in
the Civil Rights struggles of the 1950s and 1960s can be dated back
to this period of turmoil.
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