BOOKS BRIEFLY
BOOKS BRIEFLY Where Main Street Meets the River, by Hodding Carter (Rine-hart. 339 pp. $4). Hodding Carter is the editor of the Greenville, Miss., Delta-Democrat-Times. This is a personal account...
...Impatient Crusader: Florence kelley's life story, by Josephine Goldmark...
...University of Illinois Press...
...South Carolina Negroes, 18771900, by George B. Tindall (University of South Carolina Press...
...Josephine Goldmark, Florence Kelley's coworker in the National Consumers League, has given us a biography of considerable interest...
...A scholarly but sympathetic examination of the post-Reconstruction history of Negroes in the state that spearheaded the Southern rebellion...
...it is social history cast in a meaningful conceptual framework and written in a style that does not equate profundity with dullness...
...This is a personal account of his experience both as a newspaperman over the past 25 years and as an active spokesman for the progressive South...
...3.50...
...The observations concerning the industrialization of the South and the continuing betterment of race relations in that area show a facile pen and lively wit...
...Well-researched and carefully documented, the book is more than the standard chronological narration of selected events...
...217 pp...
...however, the fire and passion of the daughter of "Pig Iron" Kelley are not...
...The record of the "Impatient Crusader" is here...
...Today much of what Florence Kelley fought for —child labor laws, the establishment of minimum wages and maximum working hours, industrial health control, pre-natal care to lower maternal and infant mortality, the abolishment of tenement home-work and the sweatshop—is taken for granted...
...336 pp...
Vol. 17 • September 1953 • No. 9
