HIST 312 History of the New South (Not offered 1997-98)*
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A study of the history of the American South from 1877 to the present. Social, 
political and economic trends will be examined in some detail: the rule of 
the "Redeemers" following the end of Reconstruction; tenancy, sharecropping, 
and the rise of agrarian radicalism; southern Progressivism; the coming of 
racial segregation and the destruction of the Jim Crow system during the years 
of the Civil Rights movement; southern politics during the depression and post-World 
War II years. Classes will be primarily discussion. 
Requirements: a midterm, a final exam, and a paper of moderate length. 
Group A 
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	DEW
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