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A Hollow Inheritance: The Legacies of the Tuskegee Civic Association and the Crusade for Civic Democracy in Alabama
(2016-08-01)
This thesis examines and analyzes the Tuskegee Civic Association’s “Crusade for Citizenship” in Alabama. In 1957, the Crusade encouraged black citizens to boycott businesses owned and operated by segregationist whites in ...
Unpopular Views of Peace: The Great War and the Transformation of Southern Religion
(2016-05-02)
The Great War erupted in Europe in 1914. Initially, most Americans viewed the war with horror, and many actively advocated the United States stay out of the conflict. Southern churches were part of this wave of opposition ...
"The Newspapers Will Invade Their Firesides": Politics, the Press, and the End of Reconstruction in Alabama
(2016-05-05)
In 1874, Alabama Democrats exploited racial tensions to animate disaffected whites, producing the highest voter turnout in Reconstruction and the end of Republican rule. Throughout the campaign, newspaper editors and ...
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell's Angels: Herb Shreve, Evangelicalism, and the Christian Motorcyclists Association, 1974-1994
(2016-05-11)
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Postwar America can be defined as a time of cultural warfare. The Civil Rights Movement, expansion of the federal government, debates on contraceptives, abortion, pornography, and homosexuality are only a few ...
Jim Crow in the City: Spatial Segregation in Columbus, Georgia, 1890-1944
(2016-05-06)
Between 1890 and 1944 thousands of African Americans moved to Columbus in search of greater economic and social opportunities. Despite Jim Crow laws and the threat of violence, African Americans built a thriving black ...
Suburbanization and the Magic City
(2016-05-03)
Since its founding in 1871, Birmingham’s metropolitan area has experienced enormous growth. In the late-nineteenth century, the city’s industrial origins influenced neighborhood development for working, middle, and elite ...
Hoodoo in the Gulf Coast: Empowerment and Protection during the 19th and 20th Centuries: The Black cat bone and Snakes
(2016-05-06)
Hoodoo during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries provided African Americans with knowledge, protection, and power. Although previous scholarship has focused on the role of different charms and herbal treatments, this ...
‘The Best of Friends and Neighbors’: USIA and American Public Diplomacy Strategy in Cuba, 1953-1962
(2016-05-06)
This dissertation examines the United States Information Agency’s (USIA) public diplomacy strategy in Cuba from 1953 to 1962 through both the agency’s United States Information Service (USIS) field office on the island and ...
Building Nonalignment: Technological Interchange and India’s Third Five-Year Plan (1961-1966)
(2016-07-27)
The role of ideology in the modernization of India has been closely studied. Less well understood is the role that technological knowledge and artifacts played. This dissertation studies the role of technology in the Indian ...
Denomination and Dissent: Benjamin Franklin Haynes and the Travails of Methodist Identity, 1885-1925
(2016-08-05)
This dissertation explores the themes of denomination and dissent in two related denominations, the Methodist Episcopal Church, South (MECS), and the Church of the Nazarene, using the life of Benjamin Franklin Haynes. A ...