The southern fabric moves of 1929-1931 have been ferocious struggles--thousands of millhands went on strike, the nationwide defend was once deployed, a number of humans have been killed and enormous quantities injured and jailed. The southern press, and for a time the nationwide press, lined the tale in huge, immense element. In recounting advancements, southern journalists and editors discovered themselves swept up on a painful and sweeping re-evaluation and reconstruction of southern associations and values. Whalen explores the mostly unknown global of southern journalism and investigates the ways that the upheaval in textiles brought on profound soul-searching between southerners. The southern cloth moves of 1929-1931 have been ferocious struggles--thousands of millhands went on strike, the nationwide defend used to be deployed, numerous humans have been killed and 1000's injured and jailed. The southern press, and for a time the nationwide press, lined the tale in huge, immense element. In recounting advancements, southern journalists and editors stumbled on themselves swept up on a painful and sweeping re-evaluation and reconstruction of southern associations and values. Whalen explores the mostly unknown international of southern journalism and investigates the ways that the upheaval in textiles caused profound soul-searching between southerners.

The worlds of work, journalism, and the yankee South collide during this examine. That collision, Whalen claims, is the prelude to the beautiful social, financial, and cultural transformation of the yankee South which happened within the final half the 20 th century. The cloth moves stunned the brain of the South, a undeniable fact that can conveniently be noticeable in homeland papers, as journalists and editors ran the gamut from denial and scheming to hoping and dreaming--sometimes even bravely confronting the reality. The reevaluation of southern manners and mores that might culminate within the Civil Rights struggles of the Fifties and Nineteen Sixties will be dated again to this era of turmoil.