Joshua McCarter Simpson's "To the White People of America" (1854)
O'er this wide extended country, Hear the solemn echoes roll, For a long and weary century, Those cries have gone from pole to pole; See the white man sway his...
The Supreme Court Is Overturning Brown v. Board of Education
Blog post In a case decided on the grounds of religious freedom, the US Supreme Court took another big step on June 30 in supporting religious discrimination in publicly financed...
"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
“If I could attach our blood vessels in order to anchor you to the earth to this present time I would... It makes me weep to feel the history of...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
Introduction Buenaventura Lakes, Florida. Data from the 2010 Census, Hispanic population according to county. Map courtesy of Southern Spaces. One of the largest Puerto Rican enclaves in Greater Orlando, Buenaventura...
Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
Introduction Don Candelario and a vegetable truck from The Guestworker, 2007. Charles D. Thompson, Jr., writes about agriculture and migration and has co-produced two documentaries on the subject: Brother Towns/Pueblos...
Confederates in Mexico: Lost Cause or New South Vanguard?
Review The defeat of the Confederacy, the prospect of military occupation and Republican state government, and the financial collapse of many plantations and businesses sent a number of white southerners...
When the Border Crossed Me
Video Charles D. Thompson, Los Rostros del Tiempo: Faces of Time, 2014. Reflection My border odyssey began in 1985 on a farm near Pittsboro, North Carolina. On a hot summer...
In Good Faith: Working-Class Women, Feminism, and Religious Support in the Struggle to Organize J. P. Stevens Textile Workers in the Southern Piedmont, 1974–1980
"TWUA" cheerleaders featured in Gloria Steinem's PBS series Woman Alive!, 1973–1974. In the spring of 1974, a dozen white and African American women and their daughters gathered outside the office...
Voting Rights, the Supreme Court, and the Persistence of Southern History
Essay Map of Alabama with percentage of white population. Map based on image courtesy of Social Explorer. Seven years ago, as I sat doing research at the historical society of...
States' Rights Resurgent: The Attack on the Voting Rights Act
On June 25, 2013 Chief Justice John Roberts invalidated the application of Section 5 of the federal Voting Rights Act in a five to four opinion of the US Supreme...