From Chapel Hill to Cape Town: The Collapse of Interracialism during the Popular Front

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Glenda Gilmore, Professor of History, Yale University

This paper derives from Defying Dixie: Southerners at War with White Supremacy, 1919-1948 to be published by W.W. Norton. Defying Dixie examines southerners--black and white, residents and expatriates--who tried to overturn Jim Crow before the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s.