Interview with Virginia Summey, Part 1

Posted in Interviews, Law, Media Archive, United States, Videos, Women on 2021-11-04 17:35Z by Steven

Interview with Virginia Summey, Part 1

Merrittocracy: History to the People
2019-08-22

Keri Leigh Merritt, Host
Atlanta, Georgia

In the first part of my interview with Ginny Summey, an independent scholar, we talk about her forthcoming book on Elreta Melton Alexander, one of the first Black women to become a lawyer in the US, and North Carolina’s first Black woman district court judge. We also discuss the challenges and benefits of being independent scholars.

Watch Part 2 of the interview here.

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Collapsing the Ethno-State: A Conversation with Keri Leigh Merritt It’s Going Down

Posted in Audio, History, Interviews, Media Archive, Slavery, United States on 2019-04-05 18:17Z by Steven

Collapsing the Ethno-State: A Conversation with Keri Leigh Merritt

It’s Going Down
2019-03-27

Keri Leigh Merritt
Atlanta, Georgia

On this episode of the It’s Going Down podcast, we caught up with historian and author Keri Leigh Merritt out of Atlanta, Georgia. Merritt is the author of both the 2017 book, Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South as well as the new essay, “War Happens in Dark Places, Too.” Merritt’s work focuses on labor history, slavery, and class tensions in the South, both before and after the civil war and the research work that she is producing, a long with a new wave of historians, is reshaping how we view the Confederacy, its collapse, and also whites supremacy within the United States.

Listen to the podcast (01:06:58) here. Download the podcast here.

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