Race and Difference in the "Other America": A Review of Anne Braden: Southern Patriot
...Charlotte Wade, a young African American couple. The Wades moved in on May 15, 1954, two days before the US Supreme Court's Brown vs. Board of Education decision striking down...
Birmingham, Alabama images
...1963-- shortly before morning services were to begin--the Ku Klux Klan bombed the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, killing four African American girls. Published: 28 February 2007 © 2007 David Wharton...
Jackson, Mississippi images
Jackson, Mississippi: Speeding Car, Farish Street Just a few blocks west of the State Capitol is Farish Street, at the heart of what was once Jackson's main African American business...
Atlanta's Black Population
Maps for Figure 6, Andrew Wiese, African American Suburban Development in Atlanta Kevin Kruse, White Flight and the Making of Modern Conservatism Published: 29 September 2006 © 2006 Andrew Wiese...
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The Bulletin—July 2, 2013
...lethal injection and the first African American executed since 1967. McCarthy, convicted of robbing, beating, and stabbing to death a seventy-one-year-old emeritus professor of psychology, was injected with one large...
The Bulletin—April 24, 2013
...in and intellectually engaging with the US South. In Atlanta, two historic African American churches potentially stand in the way of plans to build a new, billion-dollar football stadium for...
The Bulletin—April 3, 2013
...director Rick Sklar called the override a "terrible shame," stating that the group is prepared to sue in order to block the enforcement of the new law. African American legislators...
Opening Spaces: On Tolerance and the Possibility for Love
...violence, and the challenges we face as a nation continuously confronted with difference. On October 1, 1962, James Meredith became the first African American student at the University of Mississippi....
Remembering Women’s Political Council Member Thelma Glass
Thelma McWilliams Glass died on July 24, 2012 at age ninety-six. She was the last surviving member of the Women’s Political Council (WPC), a group of African American women in Montgomery, Alabama, who...