Unlock Now Southerner Conceived By Charles Longstreet Weltner Distributed As Interactive EBook

Charles Weltner is one of a rare breed in politics, He did what was right instead of politically expedient, This book written inshould be on everyone's reading list,
It is an unvarnished look at the history of the south and the north and how many times people were within inches of doing the right thing that would have avoided a great deal of struggle and pain later one.

The south is not the only target, He confirms something I have thought for a long time, Much of the south's struggles racially, economically and otherwise are a direct result of Reconstruction, As he points out, Reconstruction was no Marshall Plan but the actions of a vindictive group of northerners,
This book maybe hard to find but it is a packedpages,
If you don't know about Justice Weltner, I urge you to Google him, This is a hard book for me to write about, because I was close friends with its author, I worked on both of Charles Weltner's Congressional campaigns, and stood by him after he voted for theCivil Rights Act, When he resigned from his third campaign rather than to sign a loyalty pledge to the Democratic Party where Lester Maddox, slavering racist, was the Democratic nominee for governor, it just about broke my heart.


This book is about Charles Weltner's hopes and dreams for a New South, where principled people of all colors could band together to stand up to the blackhearted racists

and the bigots with pure evil running in their veins.
That might sound extreme, but the times were extreme and passions ran high, Weltner stood as a bulwark against the Klan and other racists, and for his trouble he lost the only job he ever wanted, the thing he was born to do.
It's amazing how much I don't know about Southern politics and history, This book is a quick read and supplied me with several new insights, Of the most interest here is Congressman Weltner's retelling of his experiences leading up to his "Aye" vote on the United States Civil Rights Bill which was passed on July,.
Weltner's prophecies for a New South didn't all turn out quite as he foresaw them, but he hit a goodly number square on the head.
From the publisher:
On September,, fortyeight hours after the Birmingham church bombing, freshman Congressman Charles Longstreet Weltner placed the following remarks in the Congressional Record: ".
. . I do not know what twisted and tortured minds fashioned this deed, But I know why it happened, It happened because those chosen to lead have failed to lead, Those whose task itis to speak have stood mute, And in so doing, we have permitted the voice of the South to preach defiance and disorder, We have stood by, leaving the field to reckless and violent men, " With these words, Charles Weltner ended the reign of silence among Southerners who disavow violent and uncompromising change, And with his affirmative vote ten months later on the Civil Rights Act of, Congressman Weltner established himself as a major spokesman for that same group of Southerners, a position that was affirmed by the people of Atlanta when they returned him to Congress in November,.


Now, Congressman Weltner has set forth at full length his views on the South and its problems, in a book stamped with the unmistakable authenticity of a man writing from his heart about matters that concern him deeply.
He writes of his own personal struggle with the problem, and describes the painful evolution of his own attitudes, He writes of Southern history, and the long series of opportunities lost and decisions deferred, And he writes with compassion and concern of the South present and future, and of the dream of a day when all Southerners might achieve their full potential.
Southerner will surely be unique among books on this subject, for it is the personal testament of one who loves the South but knows that "change, swift and certain, is upon us, and we must not remain forever bound to another lost cause.
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