After receiving his Master's degree in 1932, Woodward worked for the defense of Angelo Herndon, a young African-American Communist Party member who had been accused of subversive activities.
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In 1975-6 Woodward led the unsuccessful fight at Yale to block the temporary appointment of Communist historian Herbert Aptheker to teach a course.
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Following the Compromise of 1877, in the 1870s and 1880s there were localized informal practices of racial separation in some areas of society along with what he termed "forgotten alternatives" in others.
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C. Vann Woodward was born in Vanndale, a town named after his mother's family and the county seat from 1886-1903.
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In his years at Hopkins, a period during which he married Eva Redfield in 1951 and worked part-time as a newspaper copy editor, Rubin studied under poet Elliott Coleman and historian C. Vann Woodward, served as editor of The Hopkins Review, and taught creative writing (an early student was novelist John Barth).
Regardless, some of Hofstadter's arguments have since been proven to be mistaken by contemporary and later historians including Norman Pollack, C.Vann Woodward, Lawrence Goodwyn and Robert Wiebe.