Tag: Sports

“Come Out Slugging!”

“Come Out Slugging!”

Rachel Gelfand

This article chronicles the formation of the Atlanta Lesbian Feminist Alliance (ALFA) and its creative grassroots activism from 1972 to 1975. Studying ALFA offers a critical window into how lesbian feminists were envisioning political organizing, coalition building, and sports in the New South. ALFA utilized radical strategies learned in prior movements, from antiwar to civil rights activism, to create a lesbian feminist politic in Little Five Points, Atlanta. Drawing on oral histories, this essay studies ALFA activism to challenge media coverage of lesbian and gay life, pass the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), utilize the “softball strategy,” and build regional networks through the Great Southeast Lesbian Conference.

First Saturday in May

First Saturday in May

Tom Rankin
“A Position of Respect”: A Basketball Coach Who Resisted Segregation

“A Position of Respect”: A Basketball Coach Who Resisted Segregation

John B. McLendon
The Most Southern Sport on Earth: NASCAR and the Unions

The Most Southern Sport on Earth: NASCAR and the Unions

Daniel S. Pierce
My Dixie Classic

My Dixie Classic

Fred Hobson
Cowboys and Indi—er, Braves

Cowboys and Indi—er, Braves

John Shelton Reed
Southern Culture at the Crossroads: Presenting the South at the Centennial Olympic Games

Southern Culture at the Crossroads: Presenting the South at the Centennial Olympic Games

George Holt
Bloomers and Beyond

Bloomers and Beyond

Pamela Grundy
Turning the Tide: College Football and Southern Progressivism

Turning the Tide: College Football and Southern Progressivism

Andrew Doyle
The “Tennessee Test of Manhood”: Professional Wrestling and Southern Cultural Stereotypes

The “Tennessee Test of Manhood”: Professional Wrestling and Southern Cultural Stereotypes

Peter A. Coclanis
Front Porch: Sports in the South

Front Porch: Sports in the South

Harry L. Watson
Brushing Back Jim Crow The Integration of Minor-League Baseball in the American South by Bruce Adelson (Review)

Brushing Back Jim Crow The Integration of Minor-League Baseball in the American South by Bruce Adelson (Review)

Steven F. Lawson