Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface VII
3. Acknowledgments XIII
4. Contents XVII
5. One - The Silent South 1
6. Two - The Commission on Interracial Cooperation 20
7. Three - The Silent South of Howard Odum 42
8. Four - Southern Liberal and the New Deal 60
9. Five - The Southern Conference for Human Welfare 88
10. Six - Jim Crow and the War 105
11. Seven - Virginius Dabney Publicist for a Liberal South 121
12. Eight - Literals amid Dixiecrats 140
13. Nine - Lillian Smiths The Southern Liberal as Evangelist 172
14. Ten - Conclusions: They, Too, Had a Dream 198
15. Notes 213
16. Bibliography 237
17. Index 263