Rich man's war, poor man's fight : race, class, and power in the rural South during the first world war
During World War I, thousands of rural southern men, black and white, refused to serve in the military. Some failed to register with the draft, while others deserted after being inducted. Jeanette Keith traces southern draft resistance to several sources
Print Book, English, ©2004
University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, ©2004
History
viii, 260 pages : map ; 25 cm
9780807828977, 9780807855621, 0807828971, 0807855626
54543806
Southern antimilitarists on the eve of war
Which war, whose fight? : white Southerners debate the Declaration of War and the draft, 1917
Fathers, farmers, and Christians
Agrarian protest begins
Race, class, gender, and draft dodging
The surveillance state comes to rural shade : propaganda and domestic espionage in the Southern countryside
Resistance
Epilogue : after the war