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Article: Speak Now Against the Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South.
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- African American Review
- Article date:
- March 22, 1997
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John Egerton. Speak Now Against the Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South. New York: Knopf, 1994. 704 pp. $35.00.
John Egerton's Speak Now Against the Day is for readers who have time for only one book on its subject. It covers the thirty-odd years of Southern history before the mid-1950s, when the Supreme Court and the black church conspired to put the South into the national spotlight. Anyone who needs an introduction to what happened in the South before the dramatic protests of the TV age--or a reminder that things actually did happen--will be well served by this exhaustive and evocative account.
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