THE CALL OF THE NEW SOUTH. ADDRESSES DELIVERED AT THE SOUTHERN SOCIOLOGICAL CONGRESS NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE MAY 7 TO 10, 1912.

1912, 387pp, index, two portraits. Extremities lightly worn, else G+. In 1912, Governor Ben W. Hooper, of Tennessee, issued his call for the Southern Sociological Congress, and requested the governors of the other fifteen Southern States to cooperate with him in its development. The object was to bring together people interested in social welfare, for the purpose of studying and improving the social, civic and economic conditions of the South. The Congress met with about seven hundred delegates in attendance, representing twenty-eight states, the District of Columbia, Canada and Africa. Speakers addressed the problems of Child Welfare, Courts and Prisons, Public Health, Negro Problems, Education and Cooperation, The Church and Social Service, and Qualifications of Social Workers. This book is a record of the event.