The Journal of Southern History back issues from May 2004:
The southern response to British abolitionism: the maturation of proslavery apologetics.
May 01, 2004; ... ON JULY 4, 1833, JAMES HENRY HAMMOND DELIVERED AN ORATION FOR his future constituency in Barnwell, South Carolina. An ambitious young planter who had been a key player in the nullification movement earlier that year, Hammond represented a generation of white southerners who redefined the ...
A courtroom massacre: politics and public sentiment in progressive-era Virginia.
May 01, 2004; ... REMINISCING, FLOYD ALLEN'S ATTORNEY RECOUNTED HIS CLIENT'S actions in the courtroom in Carroll County, Virginia, on March 14, 1912: "[Floyd] hesitated a moment, and then he arose .... He looked to me like a man who was about to say something, and had hardly made up his mind what he was ...
Reflections on the Brown decision after fifty years.(Forum)(Brown v. Board of Education)
May 01, 2004 ... ON MAY 17, 1954, THE U.S. SUPREME COURT RULED IN BROWN V. BOARD of Education of Topeka that separate educational facilities for blacks and whites were "inherently unequal." The unanimous opinion, delivered by Chief Justice Earl Warren, overturned the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson case on the ...
The effects of Brown: personal and historical reflections on American racial atavism.(Brown v. Board of Education )
May 01, 2004; ... I WOULD LIKE TO BEGIN WITH A PERSONAL STORY. I WAS BORN IN 1941 IN Houston, Texas, but shortly after my birth my mother and I left the state to join my father in Oakland, California. Before I was born my father had come to California in search of employment. Our family was part of the ...
Brown and the "road to reunion".(Brown v. Board of Education)
May 01, 2004; ... ON MAY 16, 1954, AFTER A HEROIC SCRAMBLE TO MEET A SELF-IMPOSED publishing deadline, the University of North Carolina Press released Harry S. Asbmore's The Negro and the Schools just hours before the United States Supreme Court handed down its landmark desegregation decision, Brown v ....
Race, equality, and "hearts and minds".(influence of Brown v. Board of Education)
May 01, 2004; ... IT IS TEMPTING IN RETROSPECT TO CONSIDER BROWN V. BOARD OF Education of Topeka as the all-but-inevitable outgrowth of a post-1945 popular consensus that racial segregation violated the tenets of what Gunnar Myrdal called "the American Creed." According to this view, the beleaguered white ...
From Brown to Green and back: the changing meaning of desegregation.(Brown v. Board of Education)
May 01, 2004; ... BROWN V. BOARD OF EDUCATION OF TOPEKA TOLLED THE BELL FOR JIM Crow America. The full significance of the Supreme Court's decision and opinion will be apparent only with the passage of more time; however, even now it is clear that in some respects Brown was a blessing but in others a bane ....
A continuity of conservatism: the limitations of Brown v. Board of Education.
May 01, 2004; ... ON MAY 17, 1954, THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT ISSUED THE landmark ruling in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka that laws mandating racial segregation in public schools were unconstitutional. Some civil rights activists reacted with caution to the decision, most conspicuously the man ...
The Brown decision: its long anticipation and lasting influence.(Brown v. Board of Education)
May 01, 2004; ... THOUGH IT WAS LONG IN COMING AND SURPRISINGLY FAR-REACHING IN ITS influence, the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka decision was not unanticipated. In the decades following the Supreme Court decision in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), African Americans and their white allies slowly pushed ...
Black, White, and Brown.(Brown v. Board of Education)
May 01, 2004; ... WITH EVERY PASSING DECADE SINCE 1954 WE CONTINUE TO ASK OURselves how much the South and the nation have changed since the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka decision ended "separate but equal" education in public schools. The hallowed words of Thomas Jefferson that "all men are created ...
Southern history in periodicals, 2003: a selected bibliography.(Bibliography)
May 01, 2004 ... THIS CLASSIFIED BIBLIOGRAPHY INCLUDES MOST SCHOLARLY ARTICLES IN the field of southern history published in periodicals in 2003 except for descriptive or genealogical writings of primary interest to a restricted group of readers. If an article was published in a year other than 2003, the ...
Annual report of the Secretary-Treasurer.(Southern Historical Association )
May 01, 2004; ... HOUSTON PLAYED HOST TO A ROUSING ANNUAL MEETING IN NOVEMBER. With Texas scholar Darlene Clark Hine as our president and Journal editor and Texas native John B. Boles in charge of local arrangements, the meeting in the spectacular Hyatt Regency Hotel was a special one for a number of ...
Anne Orthwood's Bastard: Sex and Law in Early Virginia.(Book Review)
May 01, 2004; ... Anne Orthwood's Bastard: Sex and Law in Early Virginia. By John Ruston Pagan. (New York and other cities: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. [x], 222. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-19-514479-1; cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-19-514478-3.) John Ruston Pagan utilizes a legal paper trail generated ...
Tell the Court I Love My Wife: Race, Marriage, and Law--an American History.(Book Review)
May 01, 2004; ... Tell the Court I Love My Wife: Race, Marriage, and Law--An American History. By Peter Wallenstein. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. Pp. xii, 305. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 1-4039-6408-4; cloth, $35.00, ISBN 0-312-29474-3.) Peter Wallenstein's book provides a comprehensive history ...
Francois Valle and His World: Upper Louisiana before Lewis and Clark.(Book Review)
May 01, 2004; ... Francois Valle and His World: Upper Louisiana before Lewis and Clark. By Carl J. Ekberg. Missouri Biography Series. (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, c. 2002. Pp. [xx], 316. $44.95, ISBN 0-8262-1418-5.) Francois Valle was a major figure in the French settlement ...
Ladies and Gentlemen on Display: Planter Society at the Virginia Springs, 1790-1860.(Book Review)
May 01, 2004; ... Ladies and Gentlemen on Display: Planter Society at the Virginia Springs, 1790-1860. By Charlene M. Boyer Lewis. The American South Series. (Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, 2001. Pp. x, 293. Paper, $19.50, ISBN 0-8139-2080-9; cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-8139-2079-5.) ...
Architecture in the United States, 1800-1850.(Book Review)
May 01, 2004; ... Architecture in the United States, 1800-1850. By W. Barksdale Maynard. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, c. 2002. Pp. xiv, 322. $50.00, ISBN 0-300-09383-7.) W. Barksdale Maynard surveys American architecture from the end of the eighteenth to the mid-point of the ...
Mr. Jefferson's Lost Cause: Land, Farmers, Slavery, and the Louisiana Purchase.(Book Review)
May 01, 2004; ... Mr. Jefferson's Lost Cause: Land, Farmers, Slavery, and the Louisiana Purchase. By Roger G. Kennedy. (New York and other cities: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. xviii, 350. $30.00, ISBN 0-19-515347-2.) As Laurence Sterne wrote, digressions can be the life and soul of ...
A River and Its City: the Nature of Landscape in New Orleans.(Book Review)
May 01, 2004; ... A River and Its City: The Nature of Landscape in New Orleans. By Ari Kelman. (Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, c. 2003. Pp. xiv, 283. $29.95, ISBN 0-520-23432-4.) In A River and Its City, Ari Kelman provides us with an innovative and intriguing ...
Splintering the Wooden Wall: the British Blockade of the United States, 1812-1815.(Book Review)
May 01, 2004; ... Splintering the Wooden Wall: The British Blockade of the United States, 1812-1815. By Wade G. Dudley. (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2003. Pp. [xiv], 229. $32.95, ISBN 1-55750-167-X.) The target of this book is Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan, the naval historian and "sea power" ...
Subversives: Antislavery Community in Washington, D.C., 1828-1865.(Book Review)
May 01, 2004; ... Subversives: Antislavery Community in Washington, D.C., 1828-1865. By Stanley Harrold. Antislavery, Abolition, and the Atlantic World. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, c. 2003. Pp. [xvi], 280. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-8071-2834-4; cloth, $69.95, ISBN 0-8071-2805-8.) ...
Nat Turner: a Slave Rebellion in History and Memory.(Book Review)
May 01, 2004; ... Nat Turner: A Slave Rebellion in History and Memory. Edited by Kenneth S. Greenberg. (New York and other cities: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. [xx], 289. $35.00, ISBN 0-19-513404-4.) We know less about Nat Turner, who led one of the most ferocious slave revolts in the ...
A Fighter from Way Back: the Mexican War Diary of Lt. Daniel Harvey Hill, 4th Artillery, USA.(Book Review)
May 01, 2004; ... A Fighter from Way Back: The Mexican War Diary of Lt. Daniel Harvey Hill, 4th Artillery, USA. Edited by Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes Jr. and Timothy D. Johnson. (Kent, Ohio, and London: Kent State University Press, c. 2002. Pp. xvi, 231. $39.00, ISBN 0-87338-739-2.) Daniel Harvey ...
The Creole Mutiny: a Tale of Revolt aboard a Slave Ship.(Book Review)
May 01, 2004; ... The Creole Mutiny: A Tale of Revolt aboard a Slave Ship. By George Hendrick and Willene Hendrick. (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2003. Pp. x, 177. $24.95, ISBN 1-56663-493-8.) The story of the slave mutiny aboard the Creole is well known. Madison Washington, a slave, escaped from a ...
The Humblest May Stand Forth: Rhetoric, Empowerment, and Abolition.(Book Review)
May 01, 2004; ... The Humblest May Stand Forth: Rhetoric, Empowerment, and Abolition. By Jacqueline Bacon. Studies in Rhetoric/Communication. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2002. Pp. xvi, 291. $39.95, ISBN 1-57003-434-6.) Arguing that speech is inherently an act of power and ...
In the Image of God: Religion, Moral Values, and Our Heritage of Slavery.(Book Review)
May 01, 2004; ... In the Image of God: Religion, Moral Values, and Our Heritage of Slavery. By David Brion Davis. (New Haven, Conn., and London: Yale University Press, 2001. Pp. viii, 392. $35.00, ISBN 0-300-08814-0.) Fifteen years after the publication of a previous collection of essays, From ...
Beyond the River: the Untold Story of the Heroes of the Underground Railroad.(Book Review)
May 01, 2004; ... Beyond the River: The Untold Story of the Heroes of the Underground Railroad. By Ann Hagedorn. (New York and other cities: Simon and Schuster, c. 2002. Pp. xvi, 333. $25.00, ISBN 0-684-87065-7.) The Underground Railroad proved to be one of the more powerful challenges to the ...
Pen of Fire: John Moncure Daniel.(Book Review)
May 01, 2004; ... Pen of Fire: John Moncure Daniel. By Peter Bridges. (Kent, Ohio, and London: Kent State University Press, c. 2002. Pp. [x], 284. $28.00, ISBN 0-87338-736-8.) As editor and proprietor of the Richmond Examiner, American minister to the Kingdom of Sardinia, and Confederate staff ...
Cultural Values in the Southern Sporting Narrative.(Book Review)
May 01, 2004; ... Cultural Values in the Southern Sporting Narrative. By Jacob F. Rivers III. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2002. Pp. xviii, 165. $29.95, ISBN 1-57003-483-4.) Jacob F. Rivers III's Cultural Values in the Southern Sporting Narrative is a study of the literary ...
Mulattas and Mestizas: Representing Mixed Identities in the Americas, 1850-2000.(Book Review)
May 01, 2004; ... Mulattas and Mestizas: Representing Mixed Identities in the Americas, 1850-2000. By Suzanne Bost. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2003. Pp. xii, 268. $39.95, ISBN 0-8203-2325-X.) In this broadly conceived study, Suzanne Bost illuminates the complicated ...
John Brown: the Legend Revisited.(Book Review)
May 01, 2004; ... John Brown: The Legend Revisited. By Merrill D. Peterson. (Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2002. Pp. xiv, 195. $23.95, ISBN 0-8139-2132-5.) The profound issues raised by the enigmatic John Brown's strikes against slavery irritate and persist like sand ...
Lincoln, Religion, and Romantic Cultural Politics.(Book Review)
May 01, 2004; ... Lincoln, Religion, and Romantic Cultural Politics. By Stewart Winger. (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, c. 2003. Pp. viii, 271. $38.00, ISBN 0-87580-300-8.) In this admirably intelligent study of the moral and religious themes in Abraham Lincoln's speeches and ...
Colors and Blood: Flag Passions of the Confederate South.(Book Review)
May 01, 2004; ... Colors and Blood: Flag Passions of the Confederate South. By Robert E. Bonner. (Princeton, N.J., and Oxford: Princeton University Press, c. 2002. Pp. xvi, 223. $29.95, ISBN 0-691-09158-7.) Almost 150 years after Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox, Confederate symbols ...
Plain Folk in a Rich Man's War: Class and Dissent in Confederate Georgia.(Book Review)
May 01, 2004; ... Plain Folk in a Rich Man's War: Class and Dissent in Confederate Georgia. By David Williams, Teresa Crisp Williams, and David Carlson. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c. 2002. Pp. xii, 263. $55.00, ISBN 0-8130-2570-2.) Plain Folk in a Rich Man's War ...
Black Soldiers in Blue: African American Troops in the Civil War Era.(Book Review)
May 01, 2004; ... Black Soldiers in Blue: African American Troops in the Civil War Era. Edited by John David Smith. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2002. Pp. xxvi, 451. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-5579-0; cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-8078-2741-X.) John David Smith has ...
They Fought Like Demons: Women Soldiers in the American Civil War.(Book Review)
May 01, 2004; ... They Fought Like Demons: Women Soldiers in the American Civil War. By DeAnne Blanton and Lauren M. Cook. Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002. Pp. xvi, 277. $29.95, ISBN 0-8071-2806-6.) In her May 9, ...
The Fredericksburg Campaign: Winter War on the Rappahannock.(Book Review)
May 01, 2004; ... The Fredericksburg Campaign: Winter War on the Rappahannock. By Francis Augustin O'Reilly. (Baton Rouge: Lousiana State University Press, 2003. Pp. xviii, 630. $39.95, ISBN 0-8071-2809-0.) Nobody knows the Fredericksburg battlefield better than Francis Augustin O'Reilly. His new ...
Lee's Last Retreat: the Flight to Appomattox.(Book Review)
May 01, 2004; ... Lee's Last Retreat: The Flight to Appomattox. By William Marvel. Civil War America. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2002. Pp. xiv, 308. $29.95, ISBN 0-8078-2745-2.) In this well-researched and carefully written volume on the Appomattox campaign, ...
The Civil War Soldier: a Historical Reader.(Book Review)
May 01, 2004; ... The Civil War Soldier: A Historical Reader. Edited by Michael Barton and Larry M. Logue. (New York and London: New York University Press, c. 2002. Pp. xii, 515. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-8147-9880-2; cloth, $65.00, ISBN 0-8147-9879-9.) When Walt Whitman remembered the Civil War, his ...
Diary of a Contraband: the Civil War Passage of a Black Sailor.(Book Review)
May 01, 2004; ... Diary of a Contraband: The Civil War Passage of a Black Sailor. By William B. Gould IV. (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2002. Pp. xxvi, 373. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-8047-4708-3; cloth, $65.00, ISBN 0-8047-4640-0.) In his introduction to his great-grandfather's diary ...
Gray Cavalier: the Life and Wars of General W. H. F. "Rooney" Lee.(Book Review)
May 01, 2004; ... Gray Cavalier: The Life and Wars of General W. H. F. "Rooney" Lee. By Mary Bandy Daughtry. (Cambridge, Mass.: Da Capo Press, 2002. Pp. viii, 376. $27.50, ISBN 0-306-81173-1.) Gray Cavalier is a biography of one of the most capable Confederate cavalry leaders. William Henry ...
"No Disgrace to My Country": the Life of John C. Tidball.(Book Review)
May 01, 2004; ... "No Disgrace to My Country": The Life of John C. Tidball. By Eugene C. Tidball. (Kent, Ohio, and London: Kent State University Press, c. 2002. Pp. xviii, 564. $49.00, ISBN 0-87338-722-8.) John C. Tidball led an eventful life. He graduated from West Point in 1848 and began a ...
The Scalawags: Southern Dissenters in the Civil War and Reconstruction.(Book Review)
May 01, 2004; ... The Scalawags: Southern Dissenters in the Civil War and Reconstruction. By James Alex Baggett. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2003. Pp. xviii, 323. $55.00, ISBN 0-8071-2798-1.) Scalawags--"white southerners ... who supported Congressional Reconstruction and the ...
Beyond the Battlefield: Race, Memory, and the American Civil War.(Book Review)
May 01, 2004; ... Beyond the Battlefield: Race, Memory, and the American Civil War. By David W. Blight. (Amherst and Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, c. 2002. Pp. xiv, 301. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 1-55849-361-1; cloth, $70.00, ISBN 1-55849-344-1.) In Beyond the Battlefield, David W. Blight ...
Sunbelt Revolution: the Historical Progression of the Civil Rights Struggle in the Gulf South, 1866-2000.(Book Review)
May 01, 2004; ... Sunbelt Revolution: The Historical Progression of the Civil Rights Struggle in the Gulf South, 1866-2000. Edited by Samuel C. Hyde Jr. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c. 2003. Pp. x, 275. $55.00, ISBN 0-8130-2577-X.) Historians of the civil rights ...
Lynching in Colorado, 1859-1919.(Book Review)
May 01, 2004; ... Lynching in Colorado, 1859-1919. By Stephen J. Leonard. (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, c. 2002. Pp. xvi, 246. $24.95, ISBN 0-87081-680-2.) The Many Faces of Judge Lynch: Extralegal Violence and Punishment in America. By Christopher Waldrep. (New York and other cities: ...
The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow (documentary; four VHS videotapes).(Video Recording Review)
May 01, 2004; ... The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow (documentary; four VHS videotapes). Produced, directed, and written by Sam Pollard, Richard Wormser, and Bill Jersey. A co-production of Quest Productions, VideoLine Productions, and Thirteen/WNET New York. (Distributed by California Newsreel, South ...
A Way Out of No Way: Claiming Family and Freedom in the New South.(Book Review)
May 01, 2004; ... A Way Out of No Way: Claiming Family and Freedom in the New South. By Dianne Swann-Wright. The American South Series. (Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2002. Pp. xiv, 195. Paper, $14.95, ISBN 0-8139-2137-6; cloth, $49.50, ISBN 0-8139-2136-8.) African ...
In the Great Maelstrom: Conservatives in Post-Civil War South Carolina.(Book Review)
May 01, 2004; ... In the Great Maelstrom: Conservatives in Post-Civil War South Carolina. By Charles J. Holden. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2002. Pp. [xii], 164. $29.95, ISBN 1-57003-476-1.) In this fine brief study of four South Carolina conservatives, Charles J. Holden ...
Cultivating a New South: Abbie Holmes Christensen and the Politics of Race and Gender, 1852-1938.(Book Review)
May 01, 2004; ... Cultivating a New South: Abbie Holmes Christensen and the Politics of Race and Gender, 1852-1938. By Monica Maria Tetzlaff. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2002. Pp. xxii, 340. $49.95, ISBN 1-57003-453-2.) Cultivating a New South tells the story of Abbie Holmes ...
A Southern Family in White and Black: the Cuneys of Texas.(Book Review)
May 01, 2004; ... A Southern Family in White and Black: The Cuneys of Texas. By Douglas Hales. Texas A&M Southwestern Studies. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2003. Pp. xiv, 178. $29.95, ISBN 1-58544-200-3.) Douglas Hales's biography traces three generations of the Cuney family ...
Strangers in Zion: Fundamentalists in the South, 1900-1950.(Book Review)
May 01, 2004; ... Strangers in Zion: Fundamentalists in the South, 1900-1950. By William R. Glass. (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2001. Pp. xxiv, 309. $39.95, ISBN 0-86554-756-4.) There is a strong consensus among historians of religion in America that Protestant fundamentalism began in ...
A Different Day: African American Struggles for Justice in Rural Louisiana, 1900-1970.(Book Review)
May 01, 2004; ... A Different Day: African American Struggles for Justice in Rural Louisiana, 1900-1970. By Greta de Jong. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2002. Pp. xviii, 316. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-80785379-8; cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2711-8.) Greta de Jong has ...
Rethinking the Great Depression.(Book Review)
May 01, 2004; ... Rethinking the Great Depression. By Gene Smiley. The American Way Series. (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, c. 2002. Pp. xii, 179. $24.95, ISBN 1-56663-472-5.) Gene Smiley's Rethinking the Great Depression is a book-length essay that seeks to distill for nonspecialists recent scholarship ...
Behind the Backlash: White Working-Class Politics in Baltimore, 1940-1980.(Book Review)
May 01, 2004; ... Behind the Backlash: White Working-Class Politics in Baltimore, 1940-1980. By Kenneth D. Durr. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2003. Pp. [xiv], 284. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-54336; cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-8078-2764-9.) Industrial Baltimore before ...
Shaw Industries: a History.(Book Review)
May 01, 2004; ... Shaw Industries: A History. By Randall L. Patton. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2002. Pp. x, 217. $29.95, ISBN 0-8203-2364-0.) In their book Carpet Capital: The Rise of a New South Industry (Athens, Ga., 1999) Randall L. Patton and David B. Parker ...
To Save the Land and People: a History of Opposition to Surface Coal Mining in Appalachia.(Book Review)
May 01, 2004; ... To Save the Land and People: A History of Opposition to Surface Coal Mining in Appalachia. By Chad Montrie. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2003. Pp. xviii, 245. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-8078-5435-2; cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-8078-2765-7.) In this ...
Witness to the Truth: My Struggle for Human Rights in Louisiana.(Book Review)
May 01, 2004; ... Witness to the Truth: My Struggle for Human Rights in Louisiana. By John H. Scott with Cleo Scott Brown. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2003. Pp. xxii, 289. $29.95, ISBN 1-57003-489-3.) Based on personal interviews conducted in the 1960s by the late Joseph ...
The Dawn at My Back: Memoir of a Black Texas Upbringing.(Book Review)
May 01, 2004; ... The Dawn at My Back: Memoir of a Black Texas Upbringing. By Carroll Parrott Blue. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003. Pp. 303. $29.95, ISBN 0-292-70913-7.) The Dawn at My Back chronicles the life of a black filmmaker, Carroll Parrott Blue, in her own words. Blue's ...
Window on Freedom: Race, Civil Rights, and Foreign Affairs, 1945-1988.(Book Review)
May 01, 2004; ... Window on Freedom: Race, Civil Rights, and Foreign Affairs, 1945-1988. Edited by Brenda Gayle Plummet. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2003. Pp. [viii], 259. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-8078-5428-X; cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-8078-2761-4.) The anthology ...
The Political Use of Racial Narratives: School Desegregation in Mobile, Alabama, 1954-1997.(Book Review)
May 01, 2004; ... The Political Use of Racial Narratives: School Desegregation in Mobile, Alabama, 1954-1997. By Richard A. Pride. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, c. 2002. Pp. [x], 314. $39.95, ISBN 0-252-02766-3.) In this provocative monograph Vanderbilt political scientist ...
The Lynching of Emmett Till: a Documentary Narrative.(Book Review)
May 01, 2004; ... The Lynching, of Emmett Till: A Documentary Narrative. Edited by Christopher Metress. The American South Series. (Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2002. Pp. xvi, 360. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-8139-2122-8; cloth, $59.50, ISBN 0-8139-2121-X.) This brilliant ...
Dividing Lines: Municipal Politics and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Montgomery, Birmingham, and Selma.(Book Review)
May 01, 2004; ... Dividing Lines: Municipal Politics and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Montgomery, Birmingham, and Selma. By J. Mills Thornton III. (Tuscaloosa and London: University of Alabama Press, c. 2002. Pp. xiv, 733. $59.95, ISBN 0-8173-1170-X.) The civil rights movement remains one of ...
Subversive Southerner: Anne Braden and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Cold War South.(Book Review)
May 01, 2004; ... Subversive Southerner: Anne Braden and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Cold War South. By Catherine Fosl. (New York and other cities: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. Pp. xxx, 418. $35.00, ISBN 0-312-29487-5.) Born into a solidly middle class family with a mother who regarded ...
The Politics of Injustice: the Kennedys, the Freedom Rides, and the Electoral Consequences of a Moral Compromise.(Book Review)
May 01, 2004; ... The Politics of Injustice: The Kennedys, the Freedom Rides, and the Electoral Consequences of a Moral Compromise. By David Niven. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2003. Pp. xviii, 269. $28.00, ISBN 1-57233-212-3.) Although historians have judged that John F. Kennedy's ...