Speak Now Against the Day by John Egerton

Author:John Egerton [Egerton, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-83457-7
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2013-08-27T16:00:00+00:00

III

1945–1950:

Breaking the Mold

Shocked to the bone, we began to perceive that the white race was now on the defensive. The mirrors of the world were turned on us, and we did not like what we saw there. … But the more thoughtful were searching for insight, and questioning their own souls, and struggling to find a way out of trouble for our people. Ministers, church women, little magazines, fact-finding groups, more and more books, more and more decisions from the U.S. Supreme Court glowing with human justice stirred the Southern conscience as never before in history. Almost by the sheer weight of words the old Southern mold had cracked open and we were looking at ourselves inside it.

—LILLIAN SMITH,

Killers of the Dream

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