The New South 1945-1980

About this book

Almost three decades after publication of the tenth volume of A History of the South - George Brown Tindalls The Emergence of the New South 1913-1945 - Numan V. Bartley now presents Volume XI: a masterly synthesis of the regions most complex years to date. From the close of World War II to the end of the seventies the South underwent changes of such a radical nature and such tumultuous process - from rural orientation to urban from segregated society to racially commingled from poverty-saturated economy to positively booming Sunbelt - that the contrast between 1945 and 1980 almost defies cogent explanation. Bartley however meets that challenge illuminating the intervening years both individually and collectively within one monumental work.