"Army—Navy, Florida-Florida State, Texas-Oklahoma. All fine and good, but honestly, they might have to wait in line for a roll call of great college football rivalries when somebody mentions Gramblin
In the 1930s, Monroe, Louisiana, was a town of twenty-six thousand in the northeastern corner of the state, an area described by the New Orleans Item as the “lynch law center of Louisiana.” race relat
Accessible to students yet detailed for scholars, this collection of excerpts from primary sources tells the story of the debate between W. E. B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington, a war of words that
The author examines the role of race in the development of professional basketball in the Deep South between 1947 and 1979 and the clash between civic development and racism in the region. He desc
In the summer of 1928, William Alexander Scott began a small four-page weekly with the help of his brother Cornelius. In 1930 his Atlanta World became a semiweekly, and the
In the summer of 1928, William Alexander Scott began a small four-page weekly with the help of his brother Cornelius. In 1930 his Atlanta World became a semiweekly, and the
Model Airplanes are Decadent and Depraved tells the story of the American glue-sniffing epidemic of the 1960s, from the first reports of use to the unsuccessful crusade for federal legislation in the
The last remnant of the racist Redeemer agenda in the Louisiana's legal system, the nonunanimous jury-verdict law permits juries to convict criminal defendants with only ten out of twelve votes. A leg
