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Subversive Southerner

Anne Braden and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Cold War South

By: Catherine Fosl

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Subversive Southerner

Anne Braden and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Cold War South

By: Catherine Fosl

With a Foreword by Angela Y. Davis Winner of the 2003 Oral History Association Book AwardWinner of the 2003 Gustavus Myers Center for Human Rights Outstanding Book Award Anne McCarty Braden (1924-2006) was a courageous southern white woman who in the late 1940s rejected her segregationist and privileged past to become a lifelong crusader against racial discrimination. Arousing the conscience of white southerners to the reality of racial injustice, Braden was branded a communist and seditionist by southern politicians who used McCarthyism to buttress legal and institutional segregation as it came under fire in deferral courts. She became, nevertheless, one of the civil rights movement's staunchest white allies and one of five southern whites commended by Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in his 1963 "Letter from Birmingham Jail." Although Braden remained a controversial figure even in the movement, her commitment superseded her radical reputation, and she became a mentor and advisor to students who launched the 1960s sit-ins and to successive generations of peace and justice activists. In this riveting, oral history-based biography, Catherine Fosl also offers a social history of how racism, sexism, and anticommunism overlapped in the twentieth-century south and how ripples from the Cold War divided and limited the southern civil rights movement.

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813191726

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9780813191720

Freedom on the Border

An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement in Kentucky

By: Catherine Fosl,Tracy E. K'Meyer

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Freedom on the Border

An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement in Kentucky

By: Catherine Fosl,Tracy E. K'Meyer

Memories fade, witnesses pass away, and the stories of how social change took place are often lost. Many of those stories, however, have been preserved thanks to the dozens of civil rights activists across Kentucky who shared their memories in the wide-ranging oral history project from which this volume arose. Through their collective memories and the efforts of a new generation of historians, the stories behind the marches, vigils, court cases, and other struggles to overcome racial discrimination are finally being brought to light. In Freedom on the Border: An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement in Kentucky, Catherine Fosl and Tracy E. K'Meyer gather the voices of more than one hundred courageous crusaders for civil rights, many of whom have never before spoken publicly about their experiences. These activists hail from all over Kentucky, offering a wide representation of the state's geography and culture while explaining the civil rights movement in their respective communities and in their own words. Grounded in oral history, this book offers new insights into the diverse experiences and ground-level perspectives of the activists. This approach often highlights the contradictions between the experiences of individual activists and commonly held beliefs about the larger movement. Interspersed among the chapters are in-depth profiles of activists such as Kentucky general assemblyman Jesse Crenshaw and Helen Fisher Frye, past president of the Danville NAACP. These activists describe the many challenges that Kentuckians faced during the civil rights movement, such as inequality in public accommodations, education, housing, and politics. By placing the narratives in the social context of state, regional, and national trends, Fosl and K'Meyer demonstrate how contemporary race relations in Kentucky are marked by many of the same barriers that African Americans faced before and during the civil rights movement. From city streets to mountain communities, in areas with black populations large and small, Kentucky's civil rights movement was much more than a series of mass demonstrations, campaigns, and elite-level policy decisions. It was also the sum of countless individual struggles, including the mother who sent her child to an all-white school, the veteran who refused to give up when denied a job, and the volunteer election worker who decided to run for office herself. In vivid detail, Freedom on the Border brings this mosaic of experiences to life and presents a new, compelling picture of a vital and little-understood era in the history of Kentucky and the nation.

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813139015

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9780813139012

Freedom on the Border

An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement in Kentucky

By: Catherine Fosl,Tracy E. K'Meyer

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An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement in Kentucky

By: Catherine Fosl,Tracy E. K'Meyer

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The Routledge History of Medieval Magic

By: Sophie Page,Catherine Rider

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The Routledge History of Medieval Magic

By: Sophie Page,Catherine Rider

The Routledge History of Medieval Magic brings together the work of scholars from across Europe and North America to provide extensive insights into recent developments in the study of medieval magic between c.1100 and c.1500. This book covers a wide range of topics, including the magical texts which circulated in medieval Europe, the attitudes of intellectuals and churchmen to magic, the ways in which magic intersected with other aspects of medieval culture, and the early witch trials of the fifteenth century. In doing so, it offers the reader a detailed look at the impact that magic had within medieval society, such as its relationship to gender roles, natural philosophy, and courtly culture. This is furthered by the book’s interdisciplinary approach, containing chapters dedicated to archaeology, literature, music, and visual culture, as well as texts and manuscripts. The Routledge History of Medieval Magic also outlines how research on this subject could develop in the future, highlighting under-explored subjects, unpublished sources, and new approaches to the topic. It is the ideal book for both established scholars and students of medieval magic.

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1317042751

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Subversive Southerner

Anne Braden and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Cold War South

By: Catherine Fosl

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Anne Braden and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Cold War South

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Frances Burney's Cecilia

A Publishing History

By: Catherine M. Parisian

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Frances Burney's Cecilia

A Publishing History

By: Catherine M. Parisian

In her exhaustive publishing history of Frances Burney's Cecilia, Or Memoirs of an Heiress, Parisian mines an extensive archival record that includes portions of the original manuscript, annotated page proofs, legal records relative to its copyright, and an abundance of letters, to chronicle the composition, printing, and publication of Frances Burney's Cecilia from its first edition in 1782 to the present-day Oxford World's Classics paperback. Her timely history demonstrates the importance of Cecilia to the art of the novel and the history of the book.

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399

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409418200

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9781409418207

Mary Raymond, and Other Tales

Vol. II

By: Catherine Grace Frances Gore

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Mary Raymond, and Other Tales

Vol. II

By: Catherine Grace Frances Gore

Reprint of the original, first published in 1838.

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3385574110

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9783385574113

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Subversive Southerner

Subversive Southerner

Freedom on the Border

Freedom on the Border

Freedom on the Border

Freedom on the Border

The Routledge History of Medieval Magic

The Routledge History of Medieval Magic

Subversive Southerner

Subversive Southerner

Frances Burney's Cecilia

Frances Burney's Cecilia

Mary Raymond, and Other Tales

Mary Raymond, and Other Tales

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