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Black, White and Southern David R. Goldfield in his book Blac

David R. Goldfield in his book Black, White, and Southern considers race relations in the New South from 1940 to the present. Black southerners during this era had to fight to raise the barriers that white society had long placed in their path. Goldfield says that they did so and brought about the end of white supremacy without destroying the unique culture of the South. Goldfield indeed believes that the civil rights struggle has actually enhanced the cultural heritage of the South and has made it possible for southern blacks to embrace their region of the country rather than rejecting it. David R. Goldfield is Robert Lee Bailey Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and has been a leading interpreter of Southern history and culture for 25 years. This particular book is one of his more important and addresses issues that remain of great import in American life.

Goldfield details the history of the developing civil rights movement from the 1930s to the present, and he finds that the movement developed slowly in part because it did not find ways to develop a leadership. He notes that the black clergy was a natural source of leadership but that the theology of the black church for much of the first half of this century was such that it was difficult for the clergy to lead in the political realm. Other sectors of the black community gave even less indication of taking a leadership role, often because the status quo served their interests:

The more successful black entrepreneurs--morticians, hotel and restaurant operators, realtors, and publishers--benefited financially from the segregated society, as well as from bank loans, supplies, and advertising purchased from the white community. Black physicians and attorneys also based their practices on black clients (90).

Until the Montgomery Bus Boycott in the 1950s, the blacks of the South seemed to acquiesce in the system of segregation simply b...

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