Inside Agitators: White Southerners in the Civil Rights Movement

Winner of the Outstanding Book on the Subject of Human Rights in North America Award from the Gustavus Myers Center

In the movement, we always said that, like in a washing machine, it was the agitator that got the dirt out. David Chappell's book shows how the inside agitators helped cleanse the society of an extreme injustice. It is an enlightening and important look at a less publicized part of this history. -Andrew Young

A superb study done with subtlety and keen insight, it is absolutely essential for understanding the vital role white Southerners played in the civil rights movement. -C. Vann Woodward, Yale University

Chappell's argument is insightful and worth serious attention. It makes particularly fascinating reading from the perspective of the 1990s. -David R. Colburn, Reviews in American History

In this engaging work on Southern whites who sympathized with the Civil Rights Movement, Chappell argues that moderate whites, though lacking a moral commitment to civil rights, played a key role in the movement's success at both the local and national levels. -Virginia Quarterly Review

Author: David L. Chappell
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 04/22/1996
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.82h x 6.07w x 0.86d
ISBN: 9780801852343

About the Author

David Chappell teaches history at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.

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