Standing against dragons : three southern lawyers in an era of fear /
Standing Against Dragons examines the careers of three exceptional lawyers who championed civil liberties and fought for civil rights in the two decades after World War II. John Coe of Pensacola, Florida, Clifford Durr of Montgomery, Alabama, and Benjamin Smith of New Orleans became southern dissent...
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Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
[1998], ©1998
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Table of Contents:
- Ch. 1 The Problemed Peace: Civil Libertarianism, Antilibertarianism, and Cold War Doctrine
- Ch. 2. On Becoming Southern Liberals: Prelude to 1948
- Ch. 3. Crossroads: Progressive Politics and Other Pipe Dreams, 1948-1950
- Ch. 4. "Comes Now Willie McGee": Communist Causes in Southern Context, 1950-1954
- Ch. 5. Congressional Offensive, 1954: The SCEF Investigation and Its Echoes
- Ch. 6. After Brown: Congressional Anti-Communism and Southern "Sedition," 1954-1961
- Ch. 7. "Radicals" and "Respectables": The Cold War Against "Outside Agitators," 1958-1963
- Ch. 8. "They Were the Real Subversives": The Dombrowski Case and the Mississippi Crusade, 1963-1965
- Epilogue and Conclusion: "The Importance of Heresy"
- The problemed peace: civil libertarianism, antilibertarianism, and the cold war doctrine
- On becoming southern liberals: prelude to 1948
- Crossroads: progressive politics and other pipe dreams, 1948-1950
- "Comes now Willie McGee": communist causes in southern context, 1950-1954
- Congressional offensive, 1954: the SCEF investigation and its echoes
- After Brown: congressional anti-communism and southern "sedition," 1954-1961
- "Radicals" and "Respectables": the cold war against "outside agitators," 1958-1963
- "They were the real subversives": the Dombrowski case and the Mississippi crusade, 1963-1965
- Epilogue and conclusion: "the importance of heresy."