Bass, Jack

The transformation of southern politics : social change and political consequence since 1945 by Jack Bass ( Book )
10 editions published between 1976 and 1995 in English and held by 1,430 libraries worldwide
Chapters cover each Southern state, plus material on Republican Party, black politics, and organized labor.

Unlikely heroes : the dramatic story of the Southern judges of the Fifth Circuit who translated the Supreme Court's Brown decision into a revolution for equality by Jack Bass ( Book )
4 editions published between 1981 and 1982 in English and held by 990 libraries worldwide
Centers around four federal judges: Elbert P. Tuttle, John Minor Wisdom, John R. Brown, and Richard Taylor Rives.

Taming the storm : the life and times of Judge Frank M. Johnson and the South's fight over civil rights by Jack Bass ( Book )
3 editions published in 1993 in English and held by 867 libraries worldwide
In 1955, the same year Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, city bus to a white man, President Eisenhower brought down from the hills of northwest Alabama a young U.S. attorney to sit as a federal District Court judge in Montgomery. His name was Frank M. Johnson, Jr., and at thirty-seven he was the youngest federal judge in the country. Thrust by fate into the center of a raging storm of controversy, this quietly determined judge would turn.

Emerging coalitions in American politics ( Book )
2 editions published in 1978 in Undetermined and English and held by 768 libraries worldwide

Strom : the complicated personal and political life of Strom Thurmond by Jack Bass ( Book )
4 editions published in 2005 in English and held by 624 libraries worldwide
First elected to public office in 1929, Strom Thurmond was a pivotal figure in the nation's politics for more than seven decades, particularly when it came to issues of race: the Dixiecrat presidential candidate in 1948, originator of the 1956 "Southern Manifesto" against the Brown vs. Board of Education ruling, holder of the record for a Senate filibuster for his opposition to the 1957 Civil Rights Bill. Yet as a young man Thurmond had secretly fathered a daughter with the family's black maid, and quietly supported her through college and beyond. Journalists Bass and Thompson both covered him for years and broke the big stories. In this book, they tell us a great deal about power and politics in our nation and race's twisted roots in the 20th century South.--From publisher description.

Unlikely heroes by Jack Bass ( Book )
7 editions published between 1981 and 2006 in English and Undetermined and held by 601 libraries worldwide

The Orangeburg massacre by Jack Nelson ( Book )
3 editions published between 1970 and 1972 in English and held by 588 libraries worldwide

Ol' Strom : an unauthorized biography of Strom Thurmond by Jack Bass ( Book )
5 editions published between 1998 and 1999 in English and held by 510 libraries worldwide
A biography of the long-time senator and governor.

The Orangeburg massacre by Jack Bass ( Book )
6 editions published between 1984 and 2002 in English and held by 395 libraries worldwide

The Palmetto State : the making of modern South Carolina by Jack Bass ( Book )
2 editions published in 2009 in English and held by 202 libraries worldwide
From the Publisher: As South Carolina enters into the fourth century of its storied existence, the state's captivating, colorful, and controversial history continues to warrant fresh explorations. In this sweeping story of defining episodes in the state's history, accomplished Southern historians Jack Bass and W. Scott Poole trace the key importance of race relations, historical memory, and cultural life in the progress of the Palmetto State from its colonial inception to its present incarnation. The authors bring a strong emphasis on the modern era to their briskly paced narrative, which advances work begun by Bass in his germinal investigation Porgy Comes Home: South Carolina after Three Hundred Years to further our understanding of the state as it now exists. Bass and Poole focus on three central themes-divisions of race and class, adherence to historical memory, and the interconnected strands of economic, social, and political flux-as they illustrate how these threads manifest themselves time and again across the rich tapestry of the South Carolina experience. The authors explore the centrality of race relations, both subtle and direct, in the state's development from the first settlement of Charles Towne to the contemporary political and economic landscape. The tragic histories of slavery and segregation and the struggles to end each in its era have defined much of the state's legacy. The authors argue that conflicts over race continue to influence historical memory in the state, most especially in still-evolving memories-nostalgic for some and ignominious for others-of the Civil War and Reconstruction eras. And they find throughout the state's history a strong role for religion in shaping reaction to changing circumstances. In the discussion of contemporary South Carolina that makes up the majority of this volume, the authors delineate the state's remarkable transformation in the mid-twentieth century, during which a combination of powerful elements blended together through a dynamism fueled by the twin forces of continuity and change. Bass and Poole map the ways through which hard-won economic and civil rights advancements, a succession of progressive state leaders, and federal court mandates operated in tandem to bring a largely peaceful end to the Jim Crow era in South Carolina, in stark contrast to the violence wrought elsewhere in the South.