Fall ‘08
Southern Cultures volume 14, number 3: CIVIL RIGHTS
(with a free DVD)
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Front Porch
by Harry L. Watson
"Why do they call it 'White Park?'" I demanded. "Why?"
Interview
Alex Haley: Vicksburg, Mississippi, 1989
Angels, Legends, and Grace
with William R. Ferris
"I think in a lot of areas an almost mystic thing happened, given the backdrop. When I was a boy there was pretty strict segregation, and it was so much the historic custom that really relatively few people even questioned it. Then came the 1960s and their challenges to the system."
Essays
The "Golden" Era of Civil Rights
Consequences of The Carolina Israelite
by Stephen J. Whitfield
"The Carolina Israelite was a remarkable solo act, a bold effort to liberate its southern white readers from the inertia of tradition, defying the odds that anyone producing a one-man newspaper in the mid-twentieth century was very likely to be a crank."
"For Us the Living"
Visits to Civil Rights Museums
by Robert Hamburger
"'When I came to, I was laying on the seat of a car and my sister was leaning over me. I thought she was crying. I could feel her warm tears spilling down on my face. But they weren’t tears. She was bleeding because someone had hit her upside the head. And the next day we were marching again.'"
Truth, Reconciliation, and the Ku Klux Klan
by David Cunningham
"The drive for minimal justice on behalf of black people had come to this: the ordinary white people of the South . . . on the edge of a collective nervous breakdown composed in roughly equal parts of ignorance, rage, and paranoia.."
Photo Essay
Martin Luther King Jr. Streets in the South
A New Landscape of Memory
by Derek H. Alderman
"Martin Luther King Drives, Boulevards, and Avenues are important centers of African American identity, activity, and community—constituting what journalist Jonathan Tilove has called 'Black America's Main Street.'"
Features
Southern Voices Memories of H. T. Lockard
with Elizabeth Gritter
"They had me park my car behind this house. They told me the next morning that a posse had formed downstairs in the courthouse and was going to, I guess, lynch me or whatever."
South Polls Still Distinctive After All These Years
Trends in Racial Attitudes In and Out of the South
by Larry J. Griffin and Peggy G. Hargis
"Fannie Lou Hamer, one of the genuine heroes of the Civil Rights Movement, once said, 'So this ain’t just Mississippi’s problem. It's America’s problem.'"
Not Forgotten "Everything Changed, but Ain’t Nothing Changed"
Recovering a Generation of Southern Activists for Economic Justice
by Sarah C. Thuesen
"'I took her to see the movie Norma Rae so that she could try to get some perspective on what kind of role she was playing. I think she appreciated seeing that and could see how the city would like to get rid of her because she had a whole lot more power than she imagined.'"
The Special Civil Rights Issue’s DVD, Long Road to Brown, Long Road Beyond: Race and Public Education in North Carolina, is located inside the back cover, with Liner Notes on page 155.
produced by UNC’s Southern Oral History Program
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