Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
...as attention-getting. WDBJ Interview with Vivian Carter Mason. Vivian Carter Mason presented a calm and reasoned account of the first day of integrated schools in Norfolk. She affirmed that both...
Shadows along the Waccamaw
...Clockwork Regularity." Poem text. Dan Albergotti reads the poem "Vestibule." Poem text. Dan Albergotti reads the poem "Stones and Shadows." Poem text. About Dan Albergotti Born in Orangeburg, South Carolina,...
Southern Football, African American Athletes, and the Relative Decline of the Big Ten
...Football Hall of Fame. Photograph by University of Minnesota Football, ca. 1962. © Golden Gopher Gridiron, University of Minnesota Football. The case of Bobby Bell, a North Carolina player recruited...
Flatlands in the Outlands: Photographs from the Delta and Bayou
...Deltans migrated to Memphis, Milwaukee, Chicago, Los Angeles—anywhere offering hope for a better life. Most counties in the Delta have lost more than half of their population in the last...
Counterblast: How the Atlanta Temple Bombing Strengthened the Civil Rights Cause
...cartoon in its newsletter disingenuously claiming that communist subversives had carried out the attack in order to taint all segregationists with a reputation for violent bigotry. The cartoon showed a...
Navigating Jim Crow: A Review of Adolph L. Reed's The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
...writes a full-throated analytic attack on the mythology and symbols of the Lost Cause, ripping apart their defenders' rationale for honoring enslavers who undertook a "criminal insurrection."9Reed, 123. Reed is...
From Arkansas with Love: Evangelical Crisis Management and Southern (White) Gospel Music
...bluegrass and country gospel. More deeply, southern gospel functioned as a figurative space of cultural retrenchment against the music's loss of reputational capital within white evangelical popular culture.24For more on...
Good-Bye to All That?
...vote, losing to a widely disliked Republican opponent who had led the GOP's attack on public education in North Carolina. In her 2008 election, Hagan had lost to Elizabeth Dole...
Enslaved Labor and Building the Smithsonian: Reading the Stones
...men, who had escaped from Seneca Mill. It seems likely that a number of the adult men enumerated in the 1848 inventory worked in the Seneca quarry during the months...
Renewing Multimedia Scholarly Publishing: A Streamlined and Mobile-Friendly Design for Southern Spaces
...recounting her use of an article on our site in her teaching. Viewing Andrew M. Busch's Southern Spaces article "Crossing Over" on a phone. Screen capture of the new Southern...