cover image Speak Now Against the Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South

Speak Now Against the Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South

John Egerton. University of North Carolina Press, $29.95 (768pp) ISBN 978-0-8078-4557-8

Egerton's account of the early struggle for desegregation in the South starts in the Depression and ends in the mid-'50s with the historic Brown vs. Board of Education decision. (Nov.)