What the Water Took
…the water found them anyway. The farmhouse they built and planned to live in until their deaths was drowned by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in the 1960s after…
Search Results for: The Midnight Cool
Perils and Prospects
…to people determined to roll back the successes of the movement. Growing class divisions, exploding economic inequality, and the fraying of the democratic fabric wrought by these changes and the…
A Southern Story
…On the other hand, the Davies were in better shape than others in their community. Their home survived without damage, and their plantation remained productive through the whole of the…
A Moral Revolution
…the authors cite a failure of imagination, empathy’s close cousin, as the reason the reformers “could not confront the slaughterhouses,” where tourists willingly came to witness the bloody spectacle of…
Radical Volunteers: Dissent, Desegregation, and Student Power in Tennessee
University of Georgia Press
244 pages
$29.95
“Radical Volunteers tells the largely unknown story of southern student activism in Tennessee between the Brown decision in 1954 and the national backlash against the Kent State University shootings in May 1970. As one of the first statewide studies of student activism—and one of the few examinations of southern student activism—it broadens scholarly understanding of New Left and Black student radicalism from its traditionally defined hotbeds in the Northeast and on the West Coast.”
~the publisher
Spirit of the Century: Our Own Story
Hachette Books
320 pages
$30
“An insider history of the Blind Boys of Alabama, the longest running group in American music, and the untold story of their world, written with band members and key musical colleagues.”
~the publisher
