Mobilizing the South

The Thirty-First Infantry Division, Race, and World War II
A study of the Thirty-First Infantry Division, known officially as the Dixie Division, that illuminates the complexities in mobilizing American reserve units to meet the global emergency during World War II.
Recounts the social, racial, and political dramas that attended the deployment of a major Deep South infantry division, both at home and abroad

Chris Reins study of the Thirty-First Infantry Division, known officially as the Dixie Division, illuminates the complexities in mobilizing American reserve units to meet the global emergency during World War II. Citizen soldiers from Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, and Mississippi formed the core of one of the ninety infantry divisions the Army successfully activated, trained, equipped, and deployed to defeat fascism in Europe and race-based imperialism in the Pacific. But the Army mobilized ideas along with manpower,