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Southern Progress and Southern Honor: Slavery and Jim Crow at Auburn University
(2022-04-22)
Slavery built Auburn University physically, ideologically, and monetarily. After emancipation, slavery’s impact on Auburn does not vanish, instead it transforms into the violence of the Jim Crow South. Auburn played a key ...
Segregation Academies in Rural Alabama: White Resisters’ Final Stand Against School Integration in Wilcox County
(2022-04-29)
This paper examines the series of events leading to the establishment of segregation academies in Wilcox Academy, Alabama, followed by a brief analysis of how white resisters founded and built these white private schools. ...
The Master’s Tools Will Do Just Fine: Booker T. Washington, Racial Capitalism, Immigration, and the Utility of Differentiation
(2022-06-23)
Booker T. Washington understood capitalism quite well. It was a system that not only promoted uneven social terrain but depended on such conditions to sustain itself. Washington had an acute grasp on the reality that ...
Transcendent Hunger: Poor Women and Resource Raids in Civil War Georgia
(2022-08-05)
Poor women in Civil War Georgia organized and participated in resource raids of varying sizes in cities, towns, and rural areas throughout the state from 1862 to 1865. While the largest “bread riots” in cities across the ...
Stylin' Black Power: Fashion, Dignity, and Masculinity
(2022-12-02)
This study examines Black men’s style during the shifting political terrain of the Black Power Movement in the1960s and 1970s. Through a stylistic analysis of images, film, musical albums, and advertisements, I question ...
What to Wear to a Protest: The Look of the Movement in the Long 1960s
(2022-12-09)
Hidden “I was there”-style pictures in drawers of photos help tell a more complete story of events in the struggle for civil rights in “the long 1960s,” one in which “the look” of those protests and the clothing worn by ...