Divided Minds
Intellectuals and the Civil Rights Movement
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10240351 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jennifer Ritterhouse, Carol Polsgrove |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 68 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1005 |
| Publication date | 2002-11-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Southern History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-4642 • E-ISSN: 2325-6893 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3069854 |
| OpenAlex | W2800207568 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
No movement in the 20th century posed such a stark moral challenge to American intellectuals as that of civil rights. Yet the response of prominent writers and thinkers was hesitant and ambivalent. William Faulkner spoke out for desegregation but asked the North to go slow. Richard Wright and W.E.B. Du Bois had difficulty being heard while editors sought out more moderate voices. Other less patient voices struggled to emerge and put themselves at risk to air their views but it was James Baldwin who threw down a gauntlet to other intellectuals in his brilliant and revolutionary The Fire Next Time. This text tells the history of the civil rights movement, full of stories of unaccountable bravery and inexplicable timidity - often the products of the same divided minds
Aesthetics · Art · Civil rights · Movement (music · Political science · Law · Race, History, and American Society
| Citations per year | 0.35 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2009 - 2018 (10) |
| Highly cited | No |