Lyda Phillips | Chapter 16

On Account of Sex

In The Woman’s Hour, Elaine Weiss dissects the battle for women’s right to vote

By Lyda Phillips | February 27, 2018

Elaine Weiss’s The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote is a riveting history of the battle to secure voting rights for American women. Weiss will discuss The Woman’s Hour at Parnassus Books in Nashville on March 6, and at the East Tennessee History Center in Knoxville on March 8.

Setting Fire to Jim Crow

In his latest satiric novel, Gerald Duff skewers the vestiges of antebellum Nashville

By Lyda Phillips | January 9, 2018

Starting from an actual 1967 forum featuring South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond, Martin Luther King Jr., activist Stokely Carmichael, and beat poet Allen Ginsburg, Gerald Duff’s Nashville Burning looks at three consecutive Aprils of violence and change at Vanderbilt and other parts of the Music City.

John Lewis: The Last Interview and Other Conversations

Edited by Melville House, with an introduction by Jelani Cobb
Melville House
176 pages
$16.99

“Featuring interviews of civil rights activist and congressman John Lewis at almost every stage of his career, this collection illustrates why Lewis has become a human rights icon and remains an inspiration to activists today.”

~ from the publisher