Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement
...Alexander of Tennessee (ranking Republican on the committee for education) introduced legislation to enable federal funding for low-income and special-needs students in public schools to attend private schools. Alexander explained:...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Two
...hometown in its latest twist, like the two columns published side by side recently in the Centreville Press—one announcing Martin Luther King's commemoration on January 19, and right next to...
Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
...ominous moon." Almond quipped that he was concerned about "two revolving bodies: Sputnik and the Supreme Court of the United States." The health and security of the American republic hung...
The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance
...Lieutenant General John Bell Hood, commander of the Confederate Army of Tennessee. Photographic print. Hood's leadership at Chickamauga won him a promotion to lieutenant general on February 11, 1864, and...
Voting Rights: Justice Alito's False, Partisan Facts
...States. Alito's observation echoes the outline of an argument that the national Republican Party is aggressively advancing to disable the Voting Rights Act. The National Republican Redistricting Trust (NRRT), the...
Separate and Unequal Schools: The Past Is Future
...in book form as Overturning Brown: The Segregationist Legacy of the Modern School Choice Movement (Montgomery: NewSouth Books, 2020). predominantly white Republicans will take states back to a future of...
"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...New York Times, Jan. 16, 1909, 1. Several months earlier and prior to his election, Taft had become the first Republican candidate to venture into the Democratic "Solid South" during...
Genres of Southern Literature
...for southern literature. This tradition is not without irony, given the other directive that has long governed southern literary study: the emphasis on promoting "internal" or a-historical, non-contingent readings of...
"This is Not Dixie:" The Imagined South, the Kansas Free State Narrative, and the Rhetoric of Racist Violence
...Central Plains 20 (Summer 1997): 102-115. On the "Free Labor" concept more generally and its relation to race, see Eric Foner, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican...
A Trumped-Up Dixie: White Southern Republicans and Immigration Reform
...United States, and is, and of right ought to be, a sovereign and independent State." The seceding states became "Independent Republics" that came together to "form… a Republic Government of...