| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.1

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Book Review

Race against Time: Culture and Separation in Natchez since 1930. By Jack E. Davis. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001. xiv, 351 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8071-2585-7.)

Race against Time is an important addition to the body of local studies of the civil rights movement. Site of the classic 1941 community study by Allison Davis et al., Deep South, Natchez, Mississippi, has also been home to an unusual conjunction of Old and New South sensibilities and institutions. The Natchez Pilgrimage, organized by elite women in the 1930s, is famous for its displays of mythic images of the Old South, with its tours of antebellum mansions and its Confederate Pageant, which included a tableau of happily singing slaves. But also dating to the 1930s was significant industrial development, including large, unionized factories. . . .

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