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Article: The difficult isolation courage can bring: newspaper boycotts forced 'the need for courage beyond the physical....'.(Courage: United States)
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- Nieman Reports
- Article date:
- June 22, 2006
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If you grew up a white man in the last great American frontier that was the Deep South in the first half of the 20th century, courage was well understood. It was not a matter of cerebration. It was the instinct that impelled a man to fight rather than to run. For the most part, it was understood to be physical at its core. Those who demonstrated it were respected, if not necessarily loved. Those who flunked the test were held in contempt, or treated as beneath it.
But there was another great cultural leitmotif for the Southern white. Conformity to the code of white supremacy was a supreme value and enforced by all means necessary. Those who deviated, or seemed to ...
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