Tag: Junie Lee Spradley

  • The Life and Death of Davis Knight after State vs. Knight (1948) Renegade South: Histories of Unconventional Southerners 2009-04-08 Victoria E. Bynum, Emeritus Professor of History Texas State University, San Marcos Davis Knight, the great-grandson of the infamous “Free State of Jones” guerrilla, Newt Knight, became the centerpiece of his own drama some 25 years…

  • “White Negroes” in Segregated Mississippi: Miscegenation, Racial Identity, and the Law The Journal of Southern History Volume 64, Number 2 (May, 1998) pages 247-276 Victoria E. Bynum, Emeritus Professor of History Texas State University, San Marcos Not until David L. Cohn returned to his native Mississippi after an absence of two decades did he understand the…