Civil Rights History
I am doing quite a bit of reading over this holiday break. One of the books I am making my way through is Capitol Men by Philip Dray. The book tells the story of the principal black leaders in Congress during Reconstruction. It’s well written and does a thorough job of explaining both the backgrounds [...]
Well, if you attended high school in Jacksonville, Florida (of all places) after 1959 you probably did. How did a high school in Florida end up being named after a Confederate general from Tennessee? It turns out that when the school opened in 1959 various interest groups, including the United Daughters of the Confederacy, competed [...]
I came across this interesting article on the changing face of the Lee County Courthouse in Mississippi. The Coalition for Change is scheduled to unveil a rendering of the estimated $7,000 civil rights monument to the Lee County Board of Supervisors in early September. The author apparently did her homework and interviewed two authorities on [...]
