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Bob Wing : The Battlelines Are Drawn in the South
Demonstrator at Moral Monday protest, Raleigh, N.C. Image from newsobserver.com. The battlelines are drawn:Right-wing neo-secession or a third Reconstruction? In this war for the heart and soul of the U.S., the battle for the South stands front and center. By … Continue reading
Jay D. Jurie : ‘Approved Killing’ in Florida
Emmett Till, left, and Trayvon Martin. Image from Tumblr. Intimations of Emmett Till: A ‘shocking story of approved killing’ in Florida Today the pre-1960s explicit racial ‘code’ has been supplanted by the implicit code upon which ‘profiling’ is based. By Jay … Continue reading
Ted McLaughlin : Post-Racial America? Yeah, Right.
Confederate massacre of black Union troops after the surrender at Fort Pillow, April 12, 1864 — under the command by Confederate Lt. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest. Image from Wikimedia Commons.Post-racial America?Some would honor ConfederateGen. Nathan Bedford Forrest By Ted McLaughlin … Continue reading
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Tagged Civil War, Confederacy, Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, Mississippi, Racism, Ted McLaughlin, the South
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BOOKS / Dick J. Reavis : Bruce Watson’s ‘Freedom Summer: The Savage Season…’
But his take is a bit romantic…Bruce Watson’s Freedom Summer a page turner By Dick J. Reavis / The Rag Blog / July 16, 2010 [Freedom Summer: The Savage Season That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy, by … Continue reading
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Tagged Books, Civil Rights Movement, Dick J. Reavis, Freedom Summer, Mississippi, The Rag, the South
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BOOKS / Jonah Raskin : ‘Mockingbird’ is Muddleheaded and Superficial
First edition image from Manhattan Rare Books.To Kill a Mockingbird turns 50:Harper Lee’s muddleheadedNovel for white liberals By Jonah Raskin / The Rag Blog / July 13, 2010 This summer, literate Americans are feting the 50th anniversary of the publication … Continue reading
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Tagged American History, Books, Civil Rights Movement, Film, Gregory Peck, Harper Lee, Jonah Raskin, Literature, Racism, Sixties, the South, To Kill a Mockingbird
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Joe Nick Patoski : Jim Dickinson Was One Cool Memphis Cat
It’s not just the whites reaching for the black culture, it’s the blacks reaching for the white culture. It’s about the collision. Jim Dickinson. Photo from Memphis Flyer. Memphis musician Jim Dickinson dies at 67Career of artist, producer touched four … Continue reading
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Tagged African-American, Blues, Civil Rights, Deaths, Memphis, Musicians, Oral History, Racism, Rock 'n Roll, the South
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BOOKS / Covering for the Bosses : Labor and the Southern Press
Dixie Media Versus Unions How Southern media have strengthened the region’s corporatocracy. By Roger Bybee / August 26, 2009 [Covering for the Bosses: Labor and the Southern Press by Joseph B. Atkins, 224 pp, University Press of Mississippi, July 1, … Continue reading
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Tagged Books, Labor History, Labor Unions, Mainstream Media, Mass Media, the South
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Republicans and Racism : Could Go the Way of the Whigs
Republican emailing with pictures of all the presidents. Obama’s square is just a black space with two eyeballs. It’s perfectly OK to be a racist in the Republican Party, as long as you keep it ‘in house’ and pass it … Continue reading
BOOKS / Bob Zellner’s ‘The Wrong Side of Murder Creek’
If you want a taste of what life on the front lines was like in the Southern civil rights movement, you have to read this book. By Jo Freeman [The Wrong Side of Murder Creek: A White Southerner in the … Continue reading
Philadelphia, Mississippi : Former Klan Stronghold Elects Black Mayor
James Young, left, newly elected mayor of Philadelphia, MS, celebrates with supporters. Photo by Jim Prince / AP The election of an African-American mayor in Philadelphia, Mississippi, site of infamous 1964 civil rights murders, indicates a page may have been … Continue reading
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Tagged Civil Rights, Civil Rights Movement, KKK, Mississippi, Racism, Sixties, the South
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Seeing Purple : You Mean McCain DIDN’T Win Florida?
Purple America / Contested South. Graphic from Facing South.Emerging demographic trends differentiated Florida, Virginia and North Carolina from the rest of the south sufficiently to overcome any ‘Bradley Effect’ and shift them into the Democratic column.By Jay D. Jurie / … Continue reading
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Tagged 2008 Elections, Florida, Obama Campaign, the South, Voting Trends
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