Shadows along the Waccamaw
...up in Florence, South Carolina (including the influence of family, religion, and racism), the poem "Vestibule" from his book The Boatloads, the role of place in his poetry, and how he...
Navigating Jim Crow: A Review of Adolph L. Reed's The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
...any white persons because his middle-class father taught at the local historically Black college and his parents kept him close to home near the campus. Black families deployed a variety...
Psychiatry in the Wake: Racism and the Asylumed South
...the truth about his approach to treatment, which was highly aggressive, using all means of restraint at his disposal, and in a style of prose that his northern colleagues found...
"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
...used against gay men. Lawson's teacher would observe this bullying, eventually reporting it to his parents. Late one night, Lawson remembers his father pulling him aside, asking him about what...
Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
...southern historical memory. Immediately after the Civil War, southern whites assuaged their defeat by claiming and dominating not only public spaces with monuments to the Confederacy, but utilized history departments...
Southern Football, African American Athletes, and the Relative Decline of the Big Ten
...its schools recruited talented African American athletes earlier than a number of other power conferences, most notably, of course, those in the South. Before the early 1970s, a minuscule number...
Counterblast: How the Atlanta Temple Bombing Strengthened the Civil Rights Cause
...When Governor John Slaton commuted his sentence to life imprisonment, a mob seized him from the state prison and hanged him near Mary Phagan's birthplace in Marietta. The incident had...
University of Texas Press and Southern Spaces Katrina Bookshelf Series Collaboration
...was nearly emptied of life. If measured by the number of lives it claimed, Katrina does not qualify as the worst disaster in our history. But it was far and away...
The Makers of the Sacred Harp
...singer Warren Steel was expanding the biographical and historical notes of the book for a separate volume. In Makers of the Sacred Harp, Steel and contributing author Richard Hulan present...
States' Rights Resurgent: The Attack on the Voting Rights Act
...which was delivered at the Capitol in Montgomery, Alabama," January 14, 1963, Alabama Department of Archives and History Digital Collections, http://digital.archives.alabama.gov/cdm/singleitem/collection/voices/id/2952/rec/. George Wallace justified his segregationist stance by invoking states'...