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Speak Now Against The Day

By John Egerton
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Speak Now Against the Day is the astonishing, little-known story of the Southerners who, in the generation before the Supreme Court outlawed school segregation and before Rosa Parks refused to surrender her seat on a Montgomery bus, challenged the validity of a white ruling class and a “separate but equal” division of the races.
 
The voices of the dissenters,  although present throughout the South’s troubled history, grew louder with Roosevelt’s election in 1932. An increasing number of men and women who grappled daily with the economic and social woes of the South began forcefully and courageously to speak and to work toward the day when the South—and the nation—would deliver on the historic promises in the country’s founding documents. This is the story of those brave prophets—thhe ministers, writers, educators, journalists, social activists, union members, and politicians, black and white, who pointed the way to higher ground.
 
Published forty years after the Brown v. Board of Education ruling of the Supreme Court, this compelling book is not only a rich trove of forgotten history—it also speaks profoundly to us in the context of today’s continuing racial and social conflict.

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“I'm starting a new category of "books I want to finish, but they need to go back to the library". I'm moving and as much as I want to finish this book, I know I'm not going to before I leave town, so it's on the list for the first library expedition at the other library once I'm moved. ETA: I've finished the book and it's quite good. It's very wide ranging and ties together a number of threads of Southern culture to explore what happened in the generation prior to the "official" Civil Rights Movement. However, my main criticism is also connected to its breadth- it's a sizable book and by the end, I was mostly just skimming because it gets a little bogged down in detail. I'd still recommend it, because I did learn a lot about early-mid 20th century in the South and about Civil Rights efforts prior to Brown v Board, but I almost think it would have been better as two volumes.”

About John Egerton

JOHN EGERTON was one of the foremost experts on Southern food and culture until his passing in 2013. He was best known for his writing on the Civil Rights movement and Southern history. Egerton helped found the Southern Foodways Alliance and wrote or edited around twenty books.

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