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Book Looks at Integration's Impact on White South Many whites in the post civil rights South had a nuanced reaction to a changing racial landscape. Historian Jason Sokol chronicles their lives in There Goes My Everything.

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Resistance to integration is well documented. But many whites in the South had a nuanced reaction to a changing landscape. Historian Jason Sokol chronicles their lives in There Goes My Everything. He talks with Debbie Elliott about the book.

There Goes My Everything
There Goes My Everything

White Southerners in the Age of Civil Rights, 1945-1975

by Jason Sokol

Hardcover, 433 pages |

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There Goes My Everything
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White Southerners in the Age of Civil Rights, 1945-1975
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Jason Sokol

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