Bibliogr. Index.

Foreword / Charles Joyner Introduction / Michael Shirley, George E. Sims ""Take the negro out of politics"" : J. C. L. Harris and the dilemma of white republicans in post-emancipation North Carolina / Deborah Beckel ""Let us not be so far behind"" : Columbus, Georgia, and the struggle of a new south town / Faye L. Jensen A peculiar wrenching of the soul : religion, race, and politics in Jim Crow Georgia / Bobby Donaldson Heritage of violence : memory and race relations in twentieth-century Waco, Texas / William D. Carrigan Atlanta, its people, and the ""Atlanta spirit"" in the early years of the great depression, 1929-1932 / Douglas L. Fleming Race, labor, and democracy : Brownie Lee Jones and the southern school for workers in Virginia during the 1940s / Larissa M. Smith From defiance to moderation : South Carolina governors and racial change / Tony Badger ""The dynamite was fear"" : segregation, anticommunism, and sedition in Louisville, Kentucky, the south's northern border / Catherine Fosl ""Outside agitator"" : John Kasper and the desegregation crisis in Clinton, Tennessee / Clive Webb Romper lobbies and coloring lessons : grassroots visions and political realities in the battle for head start in Mississippi, 1965-1967 / David C. Carter Poverty lawyers and racial reconstruction during the 1970s : north Mississippi rural legal services / Kris Shepard