Download or read book Defying Dixie written by Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2008 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a dramatic narrative, Gilmore deftly shows how the Southern movement for social justice unfolded against national and global developments, gaining focus and finally arriving at a narrow but effective legal strategy for securing desegregation and political rights.