Using thorough and stark statistics, Kennedy describes a South emerging from World War II, coming to grips with the racism and feudalism that had held it back for generations. He includes an all-out Who’s Who, based on his own undercover investigations, of the "hate-mongers, race-racketeers, and terrorists who swore that apartheid must go on forever." The first paperback edition brings to a new generation of readers Kennedy’s searing profile of Dixie before the civil rights movement.
Foreword to the 1991 EditionThe Problem of the SouthThe Squalid SouthProblem I, Section INo Ready-Made MoneyGrits without GravyLethal StatisticsBe It Ever So HumbleMan and LandThe New Order of SlavocracyThe Perversion of PopulismFreedom Road—ClosedLast Hired, First FiredBook Larnin', in Black and WhiteWhite Man's CountryThe 7.7 Democracy of the SouthThe Plutocracy of Polltaxia“Votin' Is White Folk's Business”All's Hell on the Southern FrontThe $outhern RevoltConstitutional Democracy CrusadersCommon Citizens Radio CommitteeAmerican Democratic National CommitteeDud or Time Bomb?The Visible EmpireKingfish and Small FryThe Road AheadMany Things Money Can BuyWhose Good Earth?TVA Leads the WayThe South Joins the UnionsBrotherhood—Union MadeFair Employment Forever!The Race RacketPrejudice Is Made, Not BornMyth of the Master RaceJames Crow, Ph.D.Total Equality, and How to Get ItTo Make the South Safe for DemocracyIndex
Stetson Kennedy is an award-winning author and human rights activist. Kennedy is also known as a pioneering folklorist, a labor activist, and environmentalist. He is the author of the books: Palmetto Country, Southern Exposure, The Jim Crow Guide, The Klan Unmasked, and After Appomattox.