Southern Elite Social Change Essays In Honor Of Willard B Gatewood Jr P

Author : Randy Finley,Thomas A. Deblack
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2002-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781557287205

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The Southern Elite and Social Change by Randy Finley,Thomas A. Deblack Pdf

Elites have shaped southern life and communities, argues the distinguished historian Willard Gatewood. These essays—written by Gatewood's colleagues and former students in his honor—explore the influence of particular elites in the South from the American Revolution to the Little Rock integration crisis. They discuss not only the power of elites to shape the experiences of the ordinary people, but the tensions and negotiations between elites in a particular locale, whether those elites were white or black, urban or rural, or male or female. Subjects include the particular kinds of power available to black elites in Savannah, Georgia, during the American Revolution; the transformation of a southern secessionist into an anti-slavery activist during the Civil War; a Tenessee "aristocrat of color" active in politics from Reconstruction to World War II; middle-class Southern women, both black and white, in the New Deal and the Little Rock integration crisis; and the different brands of paternalism in Arkansas plantations during the Jacksonian and Jim Crow eras and in the postwar Georgia carpet industry.

Author : Thomas A. DeBlack
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Elite (Social sciences)
ISBN : 1610753909

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Southern Elite & Social Change: Essays in Honor of Willard B. Gatewood, Jr. (p) by Thomas A. DeBlack Pdf

Contents -- Foreword / James C. Cobb -- Introduction / Randy Finley and Thomas A. DeBlack -- Publications by Willard B. Gatewood Jr. -- In the Shadow of the Revolution: Savannah's First Generation of Free African American Elite in the New Republic, 1790-1830 / Whittington B. Johnson -- "A Model Man of Chicot County": Lycurgus Johnson and Social Change / Thomas A. DeBlack -- "I Go To Set the Captives Free": The Activism of Richard Harvey Cain, Nationalist Churchman and Reconstruction-Era Leader / Bernard E. Powers Jr. -- "This Dreadful Whirlpool" of Civil War: Edward W. Gantt and the Quest for Distinction / Randy Finley -- James Carroll Napier (1845-1940): From Plantation to the City / Bobby L. Lovett -- Robert E. Lee Wilson and the Making of a Post-Civil War Plantation / Jeannie M. Whayne -- Reward for Party Service: Emily Newell Blair and Political Patronage in the New Deal / Virginia Laas -- "A Generous and Exemplary Womanhood": Hattie Rutherford Watson and NYA Camp Bethune in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, 1937 / Fon Gordon -- Tufted Titans: Dalton, Georgia's Carpet Elite / Thomas Deaton -- Sara Alderman Murphy and the Little Rock Panel of American Women: A Prescription to Heal the Wounds of the Little Rock School Crisis / Paula C. Barnes -- Notes -- List of Contributors

Author : Cindy Grisham
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-14
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781625840486

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A Savory History of Arkansas Delta Food: Potlikker, Coon Suppers & Chocolate Gravy by Cindy Grisham Pdf

Up and down the Arkansas Delta, food tells a story. Whether the time Bill Clinton nearly died on the way to a coon dinner or the connections made over biscuits and gravy or the more common chicken and dumpling feuds, the area is no stranger to history. One of America's last frontiers, it was settled in the late nineteenth century by a rough-and-tumble collection of timber men, sharecroppers and entrepreneurs from all over the world who embraced the traditional foodways and added their own twists. Today, the Arkansas Delta is the nation's largest producer of rice and adds other crops like catfish and sweet potatoes. Join author Cindy Grisham for this delicious look into Delta cuisine.

Author : Kimberly K. Little
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781604733518

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You Must Be from the North by Kimberly K. Little Pdf

“You must be from the North,” was a common, derogatory reaction to the activities of white women throughout the South, well-meaning wives and mothers who joined together to improve schools or local sanitation but found their efforts decried as more troublesome civil rights agitation. You Must Be from the North: Southern White Women in the Memphis Civil Rights Movement focuses on a generation of white women in Memphis, Tennessee, born between the two World Wars and typically omitted from the history of the civil rights movement. The women for the most part did not jeopardize their lives by participating alongside black activists in sit-ins and freedom rides. Instead, they began their journey into civil rights activism as a result of their commitment to traditional female roles through such organizations as the Junior League. What originated as a way to do charitable work, however, evolved into more substantive political action. While involvement with groups devoted to feeding school-children and expanding Bible study sessions seemed benign, these white women's growing awareness of racial disparities in Memphis and elsewhere caused them to question the South's hierarchies in ways many of their peers did not. Ultimately, they found themselves challenging segregation more directly, found themselves ostracized as a result, and discovered they were often distrusted by a justifiably suspicious black community. Their newly discovered commitment to civil rights contributed to the success of the city's sanitation workers' strike of 1968. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s death during the strike resonated so deeply that for many of these women it became a defining moment. In the long term, these women proved to be a persistent and progressive influence upon the attitudes of the white population of Memphis, and particularly on the city's elite.

Author : Daniel Harris Reynolds
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781557289711

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Worthy of the Cause for Which They Fight by Daniel Harris Reynolds Pdf

Robert Patrick Bender is a history instructor at Eastern New Mexico University-Roswell. He is the author of Like Grass Before the Scythe: The Life and Death of Sgt. William Remmel, 121st New York Infantry.

Author : Donald E. Davis
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2009-08-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781572336537

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Voices from the Nueva Frontera by Donald E. Davis Pdf

The Dalton-Whit?eld County area of Georgia has one of the highest concentrations of Latino residents in the southeastern United States. In 2006, a Washington Post article referred to the carpet-manufacturing city of Dalton as a "U.S. border town," even though the community lies more than twelve hundred miles from Mexico. Voices from the Nueva Frontera explores this phenomenon, providing an in-depth picture of Latino immigration and dispersal in rural America along with a framework for understanding the economic integration of the South with Latin America. Voices fr ...

Author : Anthony J. Martin
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780820356969

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Tracking the Golden Isles by Anthony J. Martin Pdf

Knobbed whelks, dwarf clams, and shorebirds -- The lost barrier islands of Georgia -- Georgia salt marshes, the places with the traces -- Rooted in time -- Coquina clams, listening to and riding the waves -- Ghost crabs and their ghostly traces -- Ghost shrimp whisperer -- Why horseshoe crabs are so much cooler than mermaids -- Moon snails and necklaces of death -- Rising seas and étoufées -- Burrowing wasps and baby dinosaurs -- Erasing the tracks of a monster -- Traces of toad toiletry -- Why do birds' tracks suddenly appear? -- Traces of the red queen -- Marine moles and mistaken science -- Tracking that is otterly delightful -- Alien invaders of the Georgia coast -- The wild cattle of Sapelo -- Your Cumberland Island pony, neither friend nor magic -- Going hog wild on the Georgia coast -- Redbays and ambrosia beetles -- Shell rings and tabby ruins -- Ballast of the past -- Riders of the storms -- Vestiges of future coasts.

Author : University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee. Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Geography
ISBN : UOM:39015079909555

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Current Geographical Publications by University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee. Library Pdf

Current Geographical Publications (CGP) is a non-profit service to the scholarly community initiated in 1938 by the American Geographical Society of New York. Beginning in 2006, the format changed to include the tables of contents of current geographical journals. The journal titles listed link to web pages or PDF scans of the current issue's contents.

Author : Sarah H. Case
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780252099847

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Leaders of Their Race by Sarah H. Case Pdf

Secondary level female education played a foundational role in reshaping women's identity in the New South. Sarah H. Case examines the transformative processes involved at two Georgia schools--one in Atlanta for African-American girls and young women, the other in Athens and attended by young white women with elite backgrounds. Focusing on the period between 1880 and 1925, Case's analysis shows how race, gender, sexuality, and region worked within these institutions to shape education. Her comparative approach shines a particular light on how female education embodied the complex ways racial and gender identity functioned at the time. As she shows, the schools cultivated modesty and self-restraint to protect the students. Indeed, concerns about female sexuality and respectability united the schools despite their different student populations. Case also follows the lives of the women as adult teachers, alumnae, and activists who drew on their education to negotiate the New South's economic and social upheavals.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2068 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Books
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111052911

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American Book Publishing Record by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Canada
ISBN : STANFORD:36105121718311

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America, History and Life by Anonim Pdf

Article abstracts and citations of reviews and dissertations covering the United States and Canada.

Author : Willard B. Gatewood
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2000-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781557285935

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Aristocrats of Color by Willard B. Gatewood Pdf

Every American city had a small, self-aware, and active black elite, who felt it was their duty to set the standard for the less fortunate members of their race and to lead their communities by example. Professor Gatewood's study examines this class of African Americans by looking at the genealogies and occupations of specific families and individuals throughout the United States and their roles in their various communities. --from publisher description.

Author : Willard Badgett Gatewood (Jr.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105001979280

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Aristocrats of Color by Willard Badgett Gatewood (Jr.) Pdf

Author : Jeannie Whayne
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807138557

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Delta Empire by Jeannie Whayne Pdf

In Delta Empire: Lee Wilson and the Transformation of Agriculture in the New South Jeannie Whayne employs the fascinating history of a powerful plantation owner in the Arkansas delta to recount the evolution of southern agriculture from the late nineteenth century through World War II. After his father’s death in 1870, Robert E. “Lee” Wilson inherited 400 acres of land in Mississippi County, Arkansas. Over his lifetime, he transformed that inheritance into a 50,000-acre lumber operation and cotton plantation. Early on, Wilson saw an opportunity in the swampy local terrain, which sold for as little as fifty cents an acre, to satisfy an expanding national market for Arkansas forest reserves. He also led the fundamental transformation of the landscape, involving the drainage of tens of thousands of acres of land, in order to create the vast agricultural empire he envisioned. A consummate manager, Wilson employed the tenancy and sharecropping system to his advantage while earning a reputation for fair treatment of laborers, a reputation—Whayne suggests—not entirely deserved. He cultivated a cadre of relatives and employees from whom he expected absolute devotion. Leveraging every asset during his life and often deeply in debt, Wilson saved his company from bankruptcy several times, leaving it to the next generation to successfully steer the business through the challenges of the 1930s and World War II. Delta Empire traces the transition from the labor-intensive sharecropping and tenancy system to the capital-intensive neo-plantations of the post–World War II era to the portfolio plantation model. Through Wilson’s story Whayne provides a compelling case study of strategic innovation and the changing economy of the South in the late nineteenth century.

Author : Dewey W. Grantham
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780813148724

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The Life and Death of the Solid South by Dewey W. Grantham Pdf

Southern-style politics was one of those peculiar institutions that differentiated the South from other American regions. This system -- long referred to as the Solid South -- embodied a distinctive regional culture and was perpetuated through an undemocratic distribution of power and a structure based on disfranchisement, malapportioned legislatures, and one-party politics. It was the mechanism that determined who would govern in the states and localities, and in national politics it was the means through which the South's politicians defended their region's special interests and political autonomy. The history of this remarkable institution can be traced in the gradual rise, long persistence, and ultimate decline of the Democratic Party dominance in the land below the Potomac and the Ohio. This is the story that Dewey W. Grantham tells in his fresh and authoritative account of the South's modern political experience. The distillation of many years of research and reflection, is both a synthesis of the extensive literature on politics in the recent South and a challenging reinterpretation of the region's political history.