Bruce E. Stewart
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780813130002
- eISBN:
- 9780813135670
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813130002.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
The political scene in North Carolina changed dramatically after the Civil War. For the first time since the war ended, a Conservative was elected governor of North Carolina. Many Republicans cited ...
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The political scene in North Carolina changed dramatically after the Civil War. For the first time since the war ended, a Conservative was elected governor of North Carolina. Many Republicans cited the lack of support in the state's western counties as the reason for their defeat in the elections. They said that many mountain whites were forced to vote Conservative because they did not like that the national Republican Party was in favor of African American political equality in line with the Reconstruction Act of March 1867. Another factor that led to this defeat was the Republican Party's failure to stop the Bureau of Internal Revenue's efforts to enforce and expand federal liquor law in western North Carolina. Most highlanders felt that the law undermined local autonomy and took away the right of small distillers to earn a living. As a consequence, moonshiners were viewed as folk heroes fighting an “oppressive” government even as they committed violent acts against federal agents, often with help from the Klu Klux Klan.Less
The political scene in North Carolina changed dramatically after the Civil War. For the first time since the war ended, a Conservative was elected governor of North Carolina. Many Republicans cited the lack of support in the state's western counties as the reason for their defeat in the elections. They said that many mountain whites were forced to vote Conservative because they did not like that the national Republican Party was in favor of African American political equality in line with the Reconstruction Act of March 1867. Another factor that led to this defeat was the Republican Party's failure to stop the Bureau of Internal Revenue's efforts to enforce and expand federal liquor law in western North Carolina. Most highlanders felt that the law undermined local autonomy and took away the right of small distillers to earn a living. As a consequence, moonshiners were viewed as folk heroes fighting an “oppressive” government even as they committed violent acts against federal agents, often with help from the Klu Klux Klan.
Gerald Horne
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252037924
- eISBN:
- 9780252095184
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252037924.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, African-American History
A leading African American Communist, lawyer William L. Patterson (1891–1980) was instrumental in laying the groundwork for the defeat of Jim Crow by virtue of his leadership of the Scottsboro ...
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A leading African American Communist, lawyer William L. Patterson (1891–1980) was instrumental in laying the groundwork for the defeat of Jim Crow by virtue of his leadership of the Scottsboro campaign in the 1930s. This watershed biography shows how Patterson helped to advance African American equality by fostering and leveraging international support for the movement. The book highlights key moments in Patterson's global activism: his early education in the Soviet Union, his involvement with the Scottsboro trials and other high-profile civil rights cases of the 1930s to 1950s, his 1951 “We Charge Genocide” petition to the United Nations, and his later work with prisons and the Black Panther Party. Drawing from government and FBI documents, newspapers, periodicals, archival and manuscript collections, and personal papers, the book documents Patterson's effectiveness at carrying the freedom struggle into the global arena and provides a fresh perspective on twentieth-century struggles for racial justice.Less
A leading African American Communist, lawyer William L. Patterson (1891–1980) was instrumental in laying the groundwork for the defeat of Jim Crow by virtue of his leadership of the Scottsboro campaign in the 1930s. This watershed biography shows how Patterson helped to advance African American equality by fostering and leveraging international support for the movement. The book highlights key moments in Patterson's global activism: his early education in the Soviet Union, his involvement with the Scottsboro trials and other high-profile civil rights cases of the 1930s to 1950s, his 1951 “We Charge Genocide” petition to the United Nations, and his later work with prisons and the Black Panther Party. Drawing from government and FBI documents, newspapers, periodicals, archival and manuscript collections, and personal papers, the book documents Patterson's effectiveness at carrying the freedom struggle into the global arena and provides a fresh perspective on twentieth-century struggles for racial justice.
Matthew Pehl
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252040429
- eISBN:
- 9780252098840
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252040429.003.0007
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
This chapter studies the extent to which race displaced class in the religious consciousness of the 1960s-era generation. The culture of worker religion formed in the 1930s in tandem with the labor ...
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This chapter studies the extent to which race displaced class in the religious consciousness of the 1960s-era generation. The culture of worker religion formed in the 1930s in tandem with the labor question, a moment when the rights of workers, the social role of labor unions, and the expansion of a social safety net dominated political discourse. By the early 1960s, the labor question no longer commanded the same urgency; indeed, for many Americans, the issue had largely been settled since the mid-1940s. Moreover, questions about the rights of workers or the role of unions were waning precisely at the moment that the quest for African American equality emerged as the defining domestic political question of the day.Less
This chapter studies the extent to which race displaced class in the religious consciousness of the 1960s-era generation. The culture of worker religion formed in the 1930s in tandem with the labor question, a moment when the rights of workers, the social role of labor unions, and the expansion of a social safety net dominated political discourse. By the early 1960s, the labor question no longer commanded the same urgency; indeed, for many Americans, the issue had largely been settled since the mid-1940s. Moreover, questions about the rights of workers or the role of unions were waning precisely at the moment that the quest for African American equality emerged as the defining domestic political question of the day.
