South of Freedom

by Carl T. Rowan

Book Overview

In 1951, Carl Rowan, a young African American journalist from Minneapolis, journeyed six thousand miles through the South to report on the reality of everyday life for blacks in the region. He sought out the hot spots of racial tension--including Columbia, Tennessee, the scene of a 1946 race riot, and Birmingham, Alabama, which he found to be a brutally racist city--and returned to the setting of his more personal trials: McMinnville, Tennessee,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807121703
• ISBN13: 9780807121702
• Release Date: April 1997
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Excellent Primary Source

Carl Rowan's account of his travels through the American South in the 1950s brings to life the harsh realities of the racial inequalites that existed in our great nation just a half a century ago. I used this book as a primary source in a US History Survey course. I would reccomend this book to high school and college age students as well as adults who are interested in race relations just prior to the Civil Rights Movement.