"Possum on Terrace": A Typed Manuscript from John Egerton on Journalist Johnny Popham
...civil rights movement. Popham also became known for his signature oratorical storytelling style, described by Claude Sitton in this piece as "dollops of sorghum syrup spat from a Gatling gun"...
Slipping Boundaries: The Tenacity of Aaron Henry
Presentation About the Author John Howard is Emeritus Professor of Arts and Humanities at King's College London. He is interested in the historical production of human differences and their attendant...
Transcript: Interview with Jim Bunkley
...Records. From "Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley" by Steve Bransford. George Mitchell: Where were you born? Jim Bunkley: In Talbot County. Mitchell: In Talbot County. Right around here. When...
A Sleight of History: University of Alabama's Foster Auditorium
...the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, links Foster Auditorium to civil rights tourism. Cleo Thomas, a former university trustee, discusses the significance of Foster's abandonment. We combined these segments with impromptu...
Reverend Will D. Campbell, Southern Racial Reconciler
...of Iraq. He also joined the fight to secure equal rights for women, gays and lesbians, the poor, the homeless, and all who suffered discrimination in a society dominated by...
Mother Jones: Back in Alabama
...of America, and Sara Nelson (right), president of the Association of Flight Attendants, speak at the rally for union members, Brookwood, Alabama, August 4, 2021. Photograph by and courtesy of...
Sonic Zora in Florida
...arranging the sounds that she encounters, stores, and "carrie[s] . . . in her memory" from the heart of the field right into the center of those scholarly circles awaiting...
Flatlands in the Outlands: Photographs from the Delta and Bayou
...and a long flat open expanse of Delta land that spreads out to the horizon on the right. A bright cirrus-streaked sky comprises the top third of the image, placing...
Envisioning Faulkner and Southern Literature
...bright shapes, ultimately (like Faulkner after him) favoring form over color. Faulkner's artist figures that focused on glassblowing and the ideal shape of the female vase are telling when seen...
They Never Witnessed Such a Melodrama
...white Kentuckians were more likely to identify themselves as southern. See George C. Wright, Racial Violence in Kentucky (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1990) 5, 70–72, 118–19. "Of about...