Browsing by Author "Carter, David"

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On Common Ground: The Relationship Between Negro Home Demonstration and 4-H Clubs and Rural Women’s Community Leadership, 1920-1980

Williams, Shari (2020-11-20) ETD File Embargoed

This dissertation examines how rural African-American women and girls in Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi developed leadership skills through their participation in United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Cooperative ...

Operation ICEBERG: How the Strategic Influenced the Tactics of LTG Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. at Okinawa

Isaac, Evan (2015-12-08)

The Okinawan campaign was World War II’s last major offensive operation. Selected as the last position for which to organize the invasion of Japan, the scale and intensity of combat led to critical accounts from journalists ...

Out and Proud: Gay and Lesbian Organizing at Alabama Universities, 1983-1997

Zinner, Max (2019-04-16)

This is an attempt to fill a void in the historical literature on gay rights, student activism, and the South by examining the recognition of and responses to gay and lesbian focused student organizations at Alabama state ...

Prophet Without Honor: Hosea Williams and the Anomalies of the Black Freedom Struggle

Rice, Rolundus (2015-05-18)

Examining the life of civil rights activist Hosea Lorenzo Williams’s life illuminates the entire landscape of the civil rights movement from a different vantage point, broadening the familiar geography and chronology of ...

Protest Activities in Southern Universities, 1965-1972

Grabarek, Kristin (2006-05-15)

This thesis examines the existence and character of protest movements in southern universities from the fall of 1965 through the spring of 1972, and offers an explanation for the student dissent in the South in these years ...

Race and the John Birch Society

Heidenreich, Benjamin (2023-04-27) ETD File Embargoed

This dissertation aims to uncover why the John Birch Society, since its early beginnings, has carried the label racist when the JBS firmly maintains it never considered race. While it could be that the JBS leadership has ...

Reconstructing Religious Identity: Southern Baptists and Anti-Catholicism, 1870-1920

Mitchell, David (2012-12-05)

This dissertation examines how Southern Baptists utilized anti-Catholicism to reconstruct their religious identity from 1870-1920. It documents the beliefs, rhetoric, and actions of Baptists as they encountered Catholics ...

Rethinking African American Protest: Freaknik and the Civil Rights Legacy of Atlanta

Stockus, Pete (2012-08-17)

During the late 1980s and early 90s, Atlanta played host to the spring break festival Freaknik. A gathering of Historically Black College and University students and African American youth, Freaknik came to challenge the ...

Segregation Academies in Rural Alabama: White Resisters’ Final Stand Against School Integration in Wilcox County

Sheffield, Amberly (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. ...

Slave Missions and Membership in North Alabama

McLendon, Eric (2006-12-15)

As white landowners settled the North Alabama towns of Florence, Huntsville, and Tuscaloosa with their slaves, they began to create missions for the religious education of blacks. Many did so out of a desire to share their ...

The Standoff: First Presbyterian Church of Columbus, Georgia, Robert McNeill, and Racial Equality

Stephens, Jessica (2011-08-17)

The civil rights movements of the mid-twentieth century touched every segment of American society. American churches were one central battle ground with opponents and supporters of integration leveraging biblical ...

Stylin' Black Power: Fashion, Dignity, and Masculinity

Carter, Mickell (2022-12-02) ETD File Embargoed

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 ...

A Tricky Chessboard: Albert Rains, New Deal Liberalism, and Southern Progressivism in Alabama

Haeuser, Erik (2018-11-15)

Alabama during the post-World War II period until the late 1960s was represented by a group of Democratic congressmen that has been described as the most liberal and progressive in the nation. Collectively, they were ...

Using Hyperlinked Scaffolding to Support Student Work with Text-based Source Documents as Part of a Problem-Based Historical Inquiry Lesson

Mitchell, Linda (2006-12-15)

Although many social studies education experts recommend the use of resource documents as part of history education, many social studies teachers are reluctant to utilize these historical resources. One reason for this ...

What to Wear to a Protest: The Look of the Movement in the Long 1960s

Oleinick, Thereza (2022-12-09) ETD File Embargoed

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 ...

Where No One Stands Alone: Harvey Gantt and the Civil Rights Movement in the Carolinas, 1943-1987

Ritchie, Samuel T. (2017-11-30)

As the first African American student to enroll at Clemson University and the first African American mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina, Harvey Gantt served as a trailblazer. Born and raised in Charleston, South Carolina, ...

Why a Diamond Means Forever: The Creation of the Diamond Engagement Ring Tradition in the United States, 1939-1996

Pequignot, Jennifer (2019-04-23)

In 1947 “a diamond is forever” became the official slogan of the De Beers Consolidated Mines Limited and is to date one of the most recognizable slogans in the history of American advertising. This dissertation utilizes ...

A Woman’s Good Works: The Life of Inez Jessie Turner Baskin and Her Fight for Civil and Human Rights in the Cradle of the Confederacy

Rabey, Jennifer (2009-11-16)

Inez Jessie Turner Baskin (1916-2007) was an African-American, female, journalist who covered the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955-1956 in Alabama’s capital for the Montgomery Advertiser as well as functioning as a central ...

Writing in Defense of Black Womanhood: Twentieth Century Black Female Intellectuals and the Development of Intersectional Thought

London, Gwendolyn (2023-08-03) ETD File Embargoed

“Writing in Defense of Black Womanhood” seeks to create an intellectual genealogy for the theory of intersectionality. Kimberlé Crenshaw’s influential articles, “Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black ...