The Unexpected Exodus: How the Cold War Displaced One Southern Town

by Louise Cassels

Book Overview

A firsthand account of a bomb factory's impact on small-town life in South Carolina

First published in 1971, this poignant memoir by grade school teacher Louise Cassels recounts the displacement of the residents of Ellenton, South Carolina, in the early 1950s to make way for the massive Savannah River Plant, a critical cold-war nuclear weapons facility.

In late 1950, amid escalating cold-war tensions, the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1570037094
• ISBN13: 9781570037092
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Length: 98 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.3" x 9.0"