Deeper than a bus running down a road : the integration of Alabama's public schools -- Why not the teachers : education reform in Alabama, 1968-1970 -- A question of justice : the 1972 Florida busing straw vote -- Building a better Florida : the 1973 Florida education reforms -- Forging a "new South Carolina" : the aftermath of integration -- Sunbelt to the rescue : education reform in South Carolina
Summary
This illuminating study treats three pivotal governors whose impact on southern identity, politics, and culture has been profound, changing the region forever. In southern politics, 1970 marked a watershed. A group of southern governors entered office that year and changed both the way the nation looked at the South and the way the constituents of those states viewed themselves. Reubin Askew in Florida, John West in South Carolina, Jimmy Carter in Georgia, and Albert Brewer in Alabama all represented a new breed of progressive moderate politician that helped demolish Jim Crow segregation and t
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-220) and index
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