They Never Witnessed Such a Melodrama
Essay On a spring evening in 1911, a mob of about fifty white men in the small city of Livermore, Kentucky, lynched Will Potter on the stage of the local...
Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery: From Slavery to Segregation
...who lie here, although I am the first to admit that something done without proper thought could mar the sanctity of the spot and the cemetery in general. It is...
New Histories of Environmental Activism: A Review of Rethinking the American Environmental Movement
...University, 1996 [1965]); Aldo Leopold A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There (London: Oxford University Press, 1949). To tar it with racism, and corporate greed, especially in a...
The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation
...establish a bi-partisan, national commission on the education of children in extreme poverty. This body should underwrite additional research, awaken public understanding and awareness, and identify how the nation's educational...
Keywords for Southern Studies: An Introduction
Excerpt Any collection that aims, as this one does, to represent the upheaval and diversity of a field that is remaking itself must confront at the outset the difficulties posed...
Brown, Black, and White in Texas
Review "Let the Negro fight his own battles," declared Felix Tijerina, a Mexican American civil rights activist in Texas and the national president of the League of United Latin American...
Hearing the Call: The Cultural and Spiritual Journey of Rosemary McCombs Maxey
Video A Reflection by Craig Womack A friend of mine tells a story about his high school days in the greater tri-city area (Wetumka, Weleetka, and Wewoka—Creek names for water...
Mississippi as Metaphor State, Region, and Nation in Historical Imagination
Mississippi as Metaphor Part 2: Dr. Crespino discusses and suggests the limits of James Silver’s image of Mississippi as “the closed society” Part 3: Dr. Crespino traces the idea of Mississippi as...
Three Black Towns: An Excerpt fromĀ Black Landscapes Matter
...and landscape architect based in San Antonio, Texas, partnered with Eatonville to generate community development guidelines drawing inspiration from Hurston's literary descriptions of the community's character. Furthermore, Fly partnered with...
Transcript: Interview with Jim Bunkley
...sang it this way this time, you got to sing it the same way the next time. Mitchell: Well not all the time. Jim Bunkley: Well, just whichever way you...