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- Title
The South in the Shadow of Nazism.
- Authors
Whitfield, Stephen J.
- Abstract
The essay discusses the connection between attitudes towards National Socialism (Nazism) following World War II and attitudes towards Jim Crow segregation laws and racial discrimination in the southern United States during the 1960s. Topics discussed include the connection of Nazi Germany and the southern U.S. in Harper Lee's novel "To Kill a Mockingbird," the impact of Stanley Kramer's film "Judgment at Nuremberg," and the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963.
- Subjects
UNITED States; RACE discrimination; SEGREGATION of African Americans; SOCIAL conditions in the Southern United States; NATIONAL socialism &; history; NATIONAL socialism &; society; TO Kill a Mockingbird (Book : Lee); JUDGMENT at Nuremberg (Film); MARCH on Washington for Jobs &; Freedom, Washington, D.C., 1963; TWENTIETH century; HISTORY; 21ST century (Literary period)
- Publication
Southern Cultures, 2012, Vol 18, Issue 3, p57
- ISSN
1068-8218
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.1353/scu.2012.0024