The South/Civil Rights

 I became a historian of the American South by virtue of my graduate training and a student of the Civil Rights Movement out of conviction, because gripping images of the Movement had been such a constant presence on television when I was growing up in the 1950s.  The posts listed below trace that journey.

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1. Two books I Wish I Had Read While Still Teaching Civil Rights–September 20, 2010.
2. Civil Rights–and Wrongs–January 1, 2012.
3. Reading the Civil War:  “Patriotic Gore”–And More–June 16, 2012.
4. Race–and History–Matter–April 1, 2013.
5. Teaching History Backwards–October 15, 2013.
6. The Changing Face of the South–December 15, 2014.
7. The South on the Nation’s Psychiatric Couch, Again–July 12, 2014.
8. The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and His Legacy–January 1, 2015.
9. “New South”?  What “New South”?–January 15, 2015.
10. Life in the Segregated South–March 2, 2015.
11. The Rise and Decline of the Redneck Riviera–October 15, 2015
12. The Great Migration–January 1, 2016.
13. A Post for Martin Luther King, Jr., Day, 2016–January 16, 2016.
14. Growing Up White in the Jim Crow South–March 1, 2016.
15. The Long Arm of Jim Crow Justice–November 1, 2016.
16. “Massive Resistance” at Ground Level–December 1, 2016.
17. A Post for Martin Luther King, Jr., Day, 2017–January 3, 2017.
18. Anatomy of a Lynching–April 1, 2017.
19. A Doomed Fight for Justice in the Jim Crow South–February 1, 2017.
20. Ain’t Nobody Here But Us Hillbillies–August 1, 2017.
21. A Post for Martin Luther King, Jr., Day, 2018–January 13, 2018.
22. History, Family, and Memory in the Jim Crow South–March 1, 2018.
23. The New South:  Myth and Reality--August 1, 2018.
24. The Road to Jim Crow, Part 1–September 1, 2018.
25. The Road to Jim Crow, Part 2–September 28, 2018.
26. Mid-Term Elections, 1866 and 2018–August 15, 2018.
27. The Age of Jim Crow–October 27, 2018.
28. My People, Yes!–November 15, 2018.
29. The “Second Reconstruction,” Part 1–November 25, 2018.
30. The “Second Reconstruction,” Part 2–January 2, 2019.
31. A Post for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Day, 2019–January 17, 2019.
32.  Freeman’s R.E. Lee—April 1, 2019.
33.  The Lost Cause and Frederick Douglass’s Response–September 1, 2019.
34.  Reflections on The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., and His Legacy, 2020:  Darkness/Light, Hate/Love–January 19, 2020.
35. Jim Crow and His Minions–August 1, 2020.
36. A Post for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Day, 2021–January 15, 2021.
37. Growing Up White in the Jim Crow South– A View from North Carolina–March 1, 2021.
38. The Civil War in 50 Minutes–August 1, September 1, 2021.
39. Martin Luther King, Jr., Day, 2022–January 7, 2022.

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For  those interested in reading more of my reflections on history, here are links to several books on the subject:

Rancorous Enmities and Blind Partialities:  Parties and Factions in Georgia, 1807-1845 (University Press of America, 2015)

In Pursuit of Dead Georgians:  One Historian’s Excursions into the History of His Adopted State (iUniverse, 2015)

Politics on the Periphery:  Factions and Parties in Georgia, 1783-1806 (University of Delaware Press, 1986)