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  • The Republican primaries: Miscegenation and the South

    The Republican primaries: Miscegenation and the South The Economist 2012-03-13 OVER the weekend the Democratic-affiliated polling organisation Public Policy Polling (PPP) came out with a survey showing that 21% of likely Republican voters in Alabama, and 29% of likely Republican voters in Mississippi, think interracial marriage should be illegal. (It also found about half think…

  • The Free State of Jones: Community, Race, and Kinship in Civil War Mississippi

    Littefield Lecture: The Free State of Jones: Community, Race, and Kinship in Civil War Mississippi Littlefield Lecture University of Texas, Austin Applied Computational Engineering & Sciences Building (ACE), Avaya Auditorium 2.302 2012-03-06, 16:00-18:00 CST (Local Time) Victoria Bynum, Professor Emerita Texas State University, San Marcos Dr. Bynum will be delivering this year’s Littlefield Lectures for…

  • Charles Marsh recounts the formation and activities of The Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission.

    Charles Marsh recounts the formation and activities of The Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission. The Civil Rights Movement as Theological Drama The Project on Lived Theology University of Virginia Charles Marsh In 1956, a new organization appeared, predisposed to the same political concerns articulated by the Citizen’s Council, but now underwritten by the state legislature.  The…

  • Profile: Sheena Gardner

    Profile: Sheena Gardner Our People Mississippi State University 2012-01-02 With a Japanese mother and an African-American father, Gardner has lived in Japan and Mississippi, experiencing a world of two cultures. Her dark skin complemented by her long, thick and curly hair distinguishes her from most other people almost everywhere she goes. Her background of growing…

  • Bynum: The Long Shadow of the Civil War (2010)

    Bynum: The Long Shadow of the Civil War (2010) The Civil War Monitor: A New Look at America’s Greatest Conflict 2011-10-19 Laura Hepp Bradshaw Carnegie Mellon University The Long Shadow of the Civil War: Southern Dissent and Its Legacies by Victoria E. Bynum. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010. Cloth, ISBN: 0807833819. “Few…

  • Christian view on segregation

    A reprint of an address made before the Synod of Mississippi of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S. on November 4, 1954.

  • Mixed schools and mixed blood

    Mixed schools and mixed blood Citizen’s Council of Mississippi: States’ Rights-Racial Integrity 1956 14 pages Source: Digital Collections of the University of Southern Mississippi Libraries USM Identifier: mus-mcc029 Herbert Ravenel Sass From the McCain (William D.) Pamphlet Collection; In the pamphlet, Sass argues that segregation is an American institution and that the Civil Rights movement…

  • Census Bureau Reports Final 2010 Census Data for the United States

    The U.S. Census Bureau announced today that 2010 Census population totals and demographic characteristics have been released for communities in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. These data have provided the first look at population counts for small areas and race, Hispanic origin, voting age and housing unit data released from…

  • Black and White and Married in the Deep South: A Shifting Image

    Black and White and Married in the Deep South: A Shifting Image The New York Times 2011-03-19 Susan Saulny, National Correspondent HATTIESBURG, Miss. — For generations here in the deepest South, there had been a great taboo: publicly crossing the color line for love. Less than 45 years ago, marriage between blacks and whites was…

  • Civil War Fires Up Literary Shootout

    Civil War Fires Up Literary Shootout The New York Times 2009-07-29 Michael Cieply LOS ANGELES — History repeats itself. But sometimes it needs a little polishing up from Hollywood. Over the last few weeks, the writers of a pair of Civil War-era histories about the anti-Confederate inhabitants of Jones County, Miss., have been trading barbs…