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Toward the Meeting of the Waters represents a watershed moment in
civil rights history--bringing together voices of leading
historians alongside recollections from central participants to
provide the first comprehensive history of the civil rights
movement as experienced by black and white South Carolinians.
Edited by Winfred B. Moore Jr. and Orville Vernon Burton, this work
originated with a highly publicized landmark conference on civil
rights held at the Citadel in Charleston. The volume openings with
an assessment of the transition of South Carolina leaders from
defiance to moderate enforcement of federally mandated integration
and includes commentary by former governor and U.S. senator Ernest
F. Hollings and former governor John C. West. Subsequent chapters
recall defining moments of white-on-black violence and aggression
to set the context for understanding the efforts of reformers such
as Levi G. Byrd and Septima Poinsette Clark and for interpreting
key episodes of white resistance. Emerging from these essays is
arresting evidence that, although South Carolina did not experience
as much violence as many other southern states, the civil rights
movement here was more fiercely embattled than previously
acknowledged. The section of retrospectives serves as an oral
history of the era as it was experienced by a mixture of locally
and nationally recognized participants, including historians such
as John Hope Franklin and Tony Badger as well as civil rights
activists Joseph A. De Laine Jr., Beatrice Brown Rivers, Charles
McDew, Constance Curry, Matthew J. Perry Jr., Harvey B. Gantt, and
Cleveland Sellers Jr. The volume concludes with essays by
historians Gavin Wright, Dan Carter, and Charles Joyner, who bring
this story to the present day and examine the legacy of the civil
rights movement in South Carolina from a modern perspective. Toward
the Meeting of the Waters also includes thirty-seven photographs
from the period, most of them by Cecil Williams and many published
here for the first time.
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