Books by "Donald C. Williams"
4 books found
The Southern Tenant Farmers' Union was founded in eastern Arkansas in 1934 to protest the New Deal's enrichment of Southern cotton barons at the expense of suffering sharecroppers, both black and white. Their courageous struggle, in the face of determined and often violent resistance from their landlords, is the subject of this thorough study from Donald H. Grubbs, which was published to critical acclaim in 1971. Cry from the Cotton was the first full-scale look at the STFU and its leaders. It discloses that, although the union operated under noticeable socialist party sponsorship in its infancy, it drew much more upon the native Southern evangelical and populist traditions, much as the civil rights movement would do twenty-five years later. Grubbs convincingly demonstrates that while the STFU failed to gain immediate social justice for its members, it resulted in the formation of the Farm Security Administration, which even today continues to aid the rural poor, and it played a large part in forcing the formation of the La Follette Civil Liberties Committee, whose spotlight on management terrorism helped the CIO toward success. The volume stands as a classic on labor issues and class struggle and still echoes with the haunting plea of the dispossessed for equity.
New England Family Histories and Genealogies: States of New Hampshire and Vermont
by Lu Verne V. Hall, Donald Odell Virdin
2000 · Heritage Books
This handy guidebook to existing published works belongs in the library of anyone searching for their New England ancestors, or researching New Hampshire or Vermont family histories and genealogies. The authors have researched and compiled this valuable bibliographic reference from the abundance of genealogical works about New Hampshire and Vermont family histories and genealogies that are available to the public. Part one, New Hampshire, contains bibliographic references, grouped alphabetically by family name, from Achilles to Young. Titles are arranged alphabetically by author. Individual book listings contain author, publisher and publication date (as available). This section also contains: a listing of the major libraries of New Hampshire, codes to library abbreviations, a list of New Hampshire genealogical societies, a bibliography and a New Hampshire fullname index. Part two, Vermont, contains all of the aforementioned data for surnames Abell to Zartman, with a Vermont fullname index.
From the earliest days of Jim Crow, African Americans in New Orleans rallied around the belief that the new system of racially biased laws, designed to relegate them to second-class citizenship, was neither legitimate nor permanent. Drawing on shared memories of fluid race relations and post-Civil War political participation, they remained committed to a disciplined and sustained pursuit of equality. Defying Jim Crow tells the story of this community's decades-long struggle against segregation, disenfranchisement, and racial violence. Amid mounting violence and increasing exclusion, black New Orleanians believed their best defense depended upon maintaining a close-knit and politically engaged community. Donald E. DeVore's peerless research shows how African Americans sought to reverse the trends of oppression by prioritizing the kind of capacity building-investment in education, participation in national organizations, and a spirit of entrepreneurship in markets not dominated by white businessmen-that would ensure the community's ability to keep fighting for their rights in the face of setbacks and hostility from the city's white leaders. As some black activists worked to attain equity within the "separate but equal" framework, they provided a firm foundation and crucial support for more overt challenges to the racist government structures. The result of over a decade's research into the history of civil rights and community building in New Orleans, Defying Jim Crow provides a thorough and insightful analysis of race relations in one of America's most diverse cities and offers a vital contribution to the complex history of the African American struggle for freedom.
Memoir of Deke Slayton, one of the first seven Mercury astronauts, discussing the role he played in early days of the United States space program as chief of America's astronaut corps.