Historian Cookie Woolner unearths communities of Black queer women in the 1920s and ‘30s
In The Famous Lady Lovers, Cookie Woolner excavates the communities built by Black queer women in the interwar era. Woolner will discuss the book at Novel in Memphis on September 12.
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Historian Timothy S. Huebner discusses how a “culture of constitutionalism” shaped the Civil War era
FROM THE CHAPTER 16 ARCHIVE: In Liberty and Union, Rhodes College professor Timothy S. Huebner brings together an enormous body of scholarship on the secession crisis, Civil War, and Reconstruction, compelling us to reconsider what we think we know about the era.
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C.T. Vivian recounts a life devoted to justice and nonviolence
FROM THE CHAPTER 16 ARCHIVE: It’s in the Action, the posthumous memoir by civil rights legend C.T. Vivian, reveals a life of extraordinary vision, conscience, and discipline.
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Jonathan Eig’s King: A Life captures the civil rights leader in his full humanity
With King: A Life, Jonathan Eig has written the definitive biography of Martin Luther King Jr. for this generation. Eig will discuss King: A Life at Parnassus Books in Nashville on June 1.
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Historians Beverly Bond and Susan O’Donovan illuminate a tragic chapter in Memphis history
FROM THE CHAPTER 16 ARCHIVE: With Remembering the Memphis Massacre, a collection of essays by notable historians, editors Beverly Bond and Susan O’Donovan bring to light a forgotten chapter in Southern history and explain how it shaped the future of American democracy.
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Leta McCollough Seletzky’s The Kneeling Man explores the complex story behind an iconic photograph
In The Kneeling Man, Leta McCollough Seletzky tells the story of her father, an undercover policeman who posed as a Black militant during the 1968 sanitation strike in Memphis.
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