Desegregation, Delaware, and Civil Rights Liberalism: A Review of Brett Gadsden's Between North and South
...long period of time, typically measured in four to five decades or more. When they succeed, they open up new conceptual terrain in ways that encourage us to rethink some...
The Black Civil Rights Movement on the Border
Review Lawrence Aaron Nixon, born in Marshall, Texas, in 1883—as Will Guzmán chronicles in Civil Rights in the Texas Borderlands—grew to manhood at a time when whites in the Lone...
Gordon Parks at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
...and respect. The headline in the New York Times photography blog Lens, for Berger's 2012 article announcing the discovery of Parks's Segregation Series, describes it as "A Radically Prosaic Approach...
Southern Spaces Recommends
...in 1973, which was the worst single attack on LGBT people in the US before Pulse. Fieseler has recently written an incredibly moving essay about his time self-distancing with his...
Sacred Harp, "Poland Style"
...Sacred Harp singing with particular places and time periods. P. Dan Brittain—a teacher at Camp Fasola Europe from Harrison, Arkansas who began singing Sacred Harp in 1970 as a military...
Ten Dollars and a Bus Ticket
...experience among ex-convicts also limits the acquisition of basic skills for the workplace, such as reliability, sociability, motivation and effective communication. More timely, structured, and intense interventional programs that emphasize...
The Supreme Court Is Overturning Brown v. Board of Education
...Constitution’s Fourteenth Amendment guarantee of “equal protection of the laws.” By that time, however, local and state funding had enabled the rapid growth of private schools—schools that were segregated, often...
The South as Foil: A Review of This Is Not Dixie
...compare their own racial goodness. They can then deny, sanitize, or simply not see the profound anti-black racism in their own sections. Furthermore, when confronted by it, they can depict...
Routes of Reconciliation: Visiting Sites of Cultural Trauma in the US South, Northern Ireland, and South Africa
...spatial relations of groups with legacies of conflict and division. In July we began our discussions with public policy advocates and congressional staffers in Washington. Most of the group's time...
Mississippi: State of Confession
...apart from the "official" religious and civic history of the state and the broader cultural ethos.1Campbell Robertson, "Civil Rights Sins, Curated by One of the Sinners," New York Times, April...