Behind the Magnolia Curtain - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Behind the Magnolia Curtain write by Thomas B. Hargrave Jr.. This book was released on 2013-03-15. Behind the Magnolia Curtain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Buoyed by his remarkable extended family, Thomas B. Hargrave, Jr., came of age during the turbulent decades of the Great Depression and World War II. He attended nine segregated public schools, served in a segregated Air Force, and ultimately graduated from college in 1951. He confronted the barriers of racism, intolerance, and injustice, earning his membership in the vanguard of the Civil Rights movement. In his memoirs, he shares honest recollections of the segregated society of his youth and how his early experiences shaped his outlook on life. Behind the Magnolia Curtain serves as his legacy to a new generation who will continue the quest for justice.
From Behind the Magnolia Curtain
From Behind the Magnolia Curtain - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook From Behind the Magnolia Curtain write by CLyde V. Williams. This book was released on 1988. From Behind the Magnolia Curtain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Sanctuaries of Segregation
Sanctuaries of Segregation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sanctuaries of Segregation write by Carter Dalton Lyon. This book was released on 2017-03-20. Sanctuaries of Segregation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Winner of the 2017 Eudora Welty Prize Sanctuaries of Segregation provides the first comprehensive analysis of the Jackson, Mississippi, church visit campaign of 1963-1964 and the efforts by segregationists to protect one of their last refuges. For ten months, integrated groups of ministers and laypeople attempted to attend Sunday worship services at all-white Protestant and Catholic churches in the state's capital city. While the church visit was a common tactic of activists in the early 1960s, Jackson remained the only city where groups mounted a sustained campaign targeting a wide variety of white churches. Carter Dalton Lyon situates the visits within the context of the Jackson Movement, compares the actions to church visits and kneel-ins in other cities, and places these encounters within controversies already underway over race inside churches and denominations. He then traces the campaign from its inception in early June 1963 through Easter Sunday 1964. He highlights the motivations of the various people and organizations, the interracial dialogue that took place on the church steps, the divisions and turmoil the campaign generated within churches and denominations, the decisions by individual congregations to exclude black visitors, and the efforts by the state and the Citizens' Council to thwart the integration attempts. Sanctuaries of Segregation offers a unique perspective on those tumultuous years. Though most churches blocked African American visitors and police stepped in to make forty arrests during the course of the campaign, Lyon reveals many examples of white ministers and laypeople stepping forward to oppose segregation. Their leadership and the constant pressure from activists seeking entrance into worship services made the churches of Jackson one of the front lines in the national struggle over civil rights.
The Mississippi Encyclopedia
The Mississippi Encyclopedia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Mississippi Encyclopedia write by Ted Ownby. This book was released on 2017-05-25. The Mississippi Encyclopedia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Recipient of the 2018 Special Achievement Award from the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters and Recipient of a 2018 Heritage Award for Education from the Mississippi Heritage Trust The perfect book for every Mississippian who cares about the state, this is a mammoth collaboration in which thirty subject editors suggested topics, over seven hundred scholars wrote entries, and countless individuals made suggestions. The volume will appeal to anyone who wants to know more about Mississippi and the people who call it home. The book will be especially helpful to students, teachers, and scholars researching, writing about, or otherwise discovering the state, past and present. The volume contains entries on every county, every governor, and numerous musicians, writers, artists, and activists. Each entry provides an authoritative but accessible introduction to the topic discussed. The Mississippi Encyclopedia also features long essays on agriculture, archaeology, the civil rights movement, the Civil War, drama, education, the environment, ethnicity, fiction, folklife, foodways, geography, industry and industrial workers, law, medicine, music, myths and representations, Native Americans, nonfiction, poetry, politics and government, the press, religion, social and economic history, sports, and visual art. It includes solid, clear information in a single volume, offering with clarity and scholarship a breadth of topics unavailable anywhere else. This book also includes many surprises readers can only find by browsing.
Carryin' on in the Lesbian and Gay South
Carryin' on in the Lesbian and Gay South - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Carryin' on in the Lesbian and Gay South write by John Howard. This book was released on 1997-08. Carryin' on in the Lesbian and Gay South available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Moving chronologically through America's past, from the antebellum and postbellum periods, through the Jim Crow era and the Cold War, to the present, this volume introduces an important new framework to the field of lesbian and gay history - that of the region.
