[مقالة]
| عنوان : |
A Dissenting Voice in Alabama: Virginia Foster Durr's Correspondence (1951-68) |
| نوع الوثيقة : |
نص مطبوع |
| مؤلفين : |
Stefani, Anne, مؤلف |
| تاريخ النشر : |
2009 |
| مقالة في الصفحة: |
P65-P78 |
| اللغة : |
إنكليزي (eng) |
| الكلمة المفتاح : |
United States , South , Virginia Durr , Civil%20Rights Movement , segregation ,desegregation ,white reformers, Dissent , correspondence |
| خلاصة : |
What is the role of private correspondence in a politically and socially intolerant context? A study of the correspondence between World War II and the late sixties of Virginia Durr, a white, Southern integrationist, will attempt to answer this question. The publication, in 2003, of a collection of letters related to the civil rights crisis in the Southern United States, shows the importance of such writing for Southern white reformers at that time. Far from being an exception, Virginia Durr exemplifies a brand of Southern white reformers, little known to the public, and whom segregationists tried to silence. In the post-World War II segregationist South, private correspondence had at least three functions. First, it enabled the integrationist minority to struggle against the conformity and ostracism imposed on dissenters by the dominant community. Secondly, it allowed the individual to testify to outsiders about the civil rights crisis and the repression that targeted all integrationists in the region, thus contributing to the civil rights movement. Finally, the letters served as a means to call for outside help in the face of violent resistance of segregationists against desegregation. |
in Revue française d'étude américaines > 120 (Trimestrielle) . - P65-P78
[مقالة] A Dissenting Voice in Alabama: Virginia Foster Durr's Correspondence (1951-68) [نص مطبوع ] / Stefani, Anne, مؤلف . - 2009 . - P65-P78. اللغة : إنكليزي ( eng) in Revue française d'étude américaines > 120 (Trimestrielle) . - P65-P78
| الكلمة المفتاح : |
United States , South , Virginia Durr , Civil%20Rights Movement , segregation ,desegregation ,white reformers, Dissent , correspondence |
| خلاصة : |
What is the role of private correspondence in a politically and socially intolerant context? A study of the correspondence between World War II and the late sixties of Virginia Durr, a white, Southern integrationist, will attempt to answer this question. The publication, in 2003, of a collection of letters related to the civil rights crisis in the Southern United States, shows the importance of such writing for Southern white reformers at that time. Far from being an exception, Virginia Durr exemplifies a brand of Southern white reformers, little known to the public, and whom segregationists tried to silence. In the post-World War II segregationist South, private correspondence had at least three functions. First, it enabled the integrationist minority to struggle against the conformity and ostracism imposed on dissenters by the dominant community. Secondly, it allowed the individual to testify to outsiders about the civil rights crisis and the repression that targeted all integrationists in the region, thus contributing to the civil rights movement. Finally, the letters served as a means to call for outside help in the face of violent resistance of segregationists against desegregation. |
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Affiner la rechercheA Dissenting Voice in Alabama: Virginia Foster Durr's Correspondence (1951-68) / Stefani, Anne in Revue française d'étude américaines, 120 (Trimestrielle)
