American Crisis, Southern Solutions: From Where We Stand, Promise and Peril - Softcover

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

DAN T. CARTER is the University of South Carolina Educational Foundation Professor Emeritus. The author and editor of more than forty scholarly articles and seven books, including Scottsboro: A Tragedy of the American South and The Politics of Rage: George Wallace, The Origins of the New Conservatism and the Transformation of American Politics. Carter has received eight major literary prizes including the Lillian Smith, Bancroft, and Robert Kennedy awards as well as a special citation in nonfiction from the Mystery Writers of America. He lives in Brevard, North Carolina.

FRYE GAILLARD is the writer-in-residence in the English and history departments at the University of South Alabama. He is the author of thirty books, including With Music and Justice for All: Some Southerners and Their Passions; Cradle of Freedom: Alabama and the Movement That Changed America, winner of the Lillian Smith Book Award; The Dream Long Deferred: The Landmark Struggle for Desegregation in Charlotte, North Carolina, winner of the Gustavus Myers Award; and If I Were a Carpenter, the first independent, book-length study of Habitat for Humanity. He lives in Mobile, Alabama.

Historian Glenn Feldman is associate professor and director of the Center for Labor Education and Research at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He is the author or editor of seven books on Southern politics, religion, race, and economics. Feldman is a native of Birmingham, Alabama.

LESLIE W. DUNBAR, a native of West Virginia, was the director of the Field Foundation and the Southern Regional Council during the turmoil of the 1960s, and has been closely identified with the cause of Southern democracy. The author of several books, most recently, The Shame of Southern Politics, he lives in Washington, D.C.

New Orleans-based attorney and writer ANTHONY P. DUNBAR is the Lillian Smith Book Award-winning author of books about Mississippi, Appalachia, migrant workers, and the Southern labor movement as well as the acclaimed Tubby Dubonnet mystery series.