Speak Now Against the Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the SouthThe compelling story of the earliest calls for desegregation and racial justice in the South. Make room on your library shelf . . . for John Egerton's magnificent Speak Now Against the Day. His book is a stunning achievement: a sprawling, engrossing, deeply moving account of those Southerners, black and white, who raised their voices to challenge the South's racial mores. . . . [This] is an eloquent and passionate book, and . . . one we cannot afford