Includes bibliographical references (pages 425-479) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: George Wallace and American freedom -- Land. Marshall Crawford's orders ; Land, liberty, and Jackson ; The killing of Hardeman Owens ; The compromise of Francis Scott Key ; Uprising -- Citizenship. Igniting a wall of fire ; "Destroying freedom and liberty" ; The Greeley gamble and the dueling dual legislatures of 1872 ; The white line: afternoon, election day 1874 ; The fate of the scalawag: evening, election day 1874 -- Federal power in repose. The prison mines ; White oligarchy as Jeffersonian democracy ; Lynching as an act of freedom ; A new deal for southside? ; The bourbon from Barbour -- Democracy. The fightin' judge ; The Albert Street club ; From Clayton to the nation ; The SCOPE of freedom ; The vote is not enough ; The northern strategy -- Conclusion.
Summary:
A prize-winning historian chronicles the long-running clash between white people and federal authority by focusing on Barbour County, Alabama and its history of fighting Reconstruction, integration, and the New Deal. Cowie focuses on Barbour County, Alabama, the ancestral home of political firebrand George Wallace. White Americans seized Native lands, championed secession, overthrew Reconstruction, questioned the New Deal, and fought against the civil rights movement. In following two centuries of local clashes between white people and federal authorities, Cowie shows how history summons us to embrace a vigorous model of American citizenship, backed by a federal government that is not afraid to fight the many incarnations of the freedom to dominate. -- adapted from jacket.
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