Race and Difference in the "Other America": A Review of Anne Braden: Southern Patriot
...long career, she never "took her hand off the plow" of social justice, and once her course was set, she did not look back. Interviews with a number of activists...
Born In Violent Conquest: A Review of Jacksonland
...professor of history at Western Carolina University. He teaches courses on Native American and United States history and participates in WCU's Cherokee Studies program. Denson is author of Demanding the Cherokee...
The Bulletin—October 18, 2012
...Mississippi's governor has joined other southern Republican governors from Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, South Carolina, and Texas in declining to participate in the program, in the wake of a Supreme Court...
Crespino's Strom Thurmond: The Last Jim Crow Demagogue and the First Sunbelt Conservative
In this short interview, historian Joseph Crespino discusses his new book, Strom Thurmond's America (New York: Hill and Wang, 2012), a political biography of South Carolina politician Strom Thurmond. Crespino explains how...
The Life of Cotton at the Katherine Plant of Springs Mills
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The Bulletin—June 26, 2012
...the Justice Department to reject similar proposals in Texas and South Carolina earlier this year. The US Supreme Court handed down a ruling yesterday in the case of Fletcher v....
The Bulletin—February 11, 2013
...of forty-five minutes to cast their votes. "[M]ore than 200,000 voters in Florida 'gave up in frustration,'" according to an Orlando Sentinel report. Maryland, South Carolina, and Virginia also faced long lines...
Grave of James D. Lynch, Greenwood Cemetery, Jackson, Mississippi, 2012
...the war, Lynch preached in South Carolina, and later in Mississippi, where the plight of blacks led him to join the Republican Party. He quickly rose to prominence in the...
Off-Season
...Inland Construction. I raised my back wings, those muscles wrought from priming rows, muscles which cradled my ribs and sides. I chucked tools in the flat bed, headed north, to...
Homage to Mississippi John Hurt
...on a hill." So they found him on a porch and took him north to become briefly, cogently famous and leave songs — "Louis Collins," "Candy Man," "Make Me a...