African Americans in Atlanta: Community Building in a New South City
...pews in white churches or in independent Black churches under the supervision of whites, as was the arrangement for Bethel African Methodist Episcopal and Friendship Baptist, Blacks were eager for...
States' Rights Resurgent: The Attack on the Voting Rights Act
...that this voting rights case was primarily a competition between the constitutional right of citizens to vote and the "constitutional equality of the States"—and held that states' rights won.2Coyle v....
Envisioning Faulkner and Southern Literature
...University Press, 1983); Daniel Joseph Singal's The War Within: From Victorian to Modernist Thought in the South, 1919–1945 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1982); and Ralph Ellison's Shadow...
The Law and the Mississippi Basin: A Review of Mississippi River Tragedies
...of the complex interactions between humans and nature along the river. On the other hand, their legal history approach necessitates the inclusion of many complicated landmark cases from different parts...
"Looking Back and Moving Forward": The Records of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference at Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library
...eliminated sex discrimination because of the fact that in the subordinate position of women, we cut across all racial, class, social, economic lines and . . . so vast a...
Desegregation, Delaware, and Civil Rights Liberalism: A Review of Brett Gadsden's Between North and South
...mention the rise of a conservative ideology that claimed to act on behalf of civil rights and equal opportunity. The materials in chapter six on the interconnections between newly-elected freshman...
Unquiet Emmett Till
Review Emmett Till continues to torment our imaginations. How could two (and almost certainly more) grown men, veterans, over six feet tall, see a fourteen year old kid as such...
Public School Politics: A Review of The End of Consensus
...1970s and, writes Parcel and Taylor, "are central to the story of Wake County's dramatic fracturing in 2009" (18). A Republican majority elected to the school board immediately "set to...
Social Justice Environmentalism
...itself have begun confronting the more complex and difficult elements of the conservation movement's past. From its beginnings, conservationism echoed the nation's conflicts over race and inequality. Several prominent early...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,'Who Do You Think Of?": Part One
...performance, improve efficiency, improve productivity!"(Hakim) What does that mean? It can mean better technology, not using 100 parts when 50 can do, and— The manager at Health-Tex would just lie...