Like Fire in Broom Straw
Southern Journalism and the Textile Strikes of 1929-1931
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 southerner…
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- ISBN: 978-0-313-31698-2
- EAN: 9780313316982
- Produktnummer: 1625701
- Verlag: Greenwood Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
- Seitenangabe: 144 S.
- Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.7 cm x D1.2 cm 372 g
- Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
- Gewicht: 372
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