Cotton as King and Curse
Trapped in a one-crop, cotton-dependent economy, the South would not fully escape until after World War II.
The Burden of Southern History
An understanding of the social, political and economic transformation of the South since World War II. Redefining its identity, values and goals.
The South of V.O. Key
Political scientist V.O. Key published Southern Politics in State and Nation in 1949; its insights and analysis have become frozen over time.
Impact of the Courts (Part I)
When the Supreme Court of 1954 struck down the separate but equal doctrine in Brown v. Board of Education, the duty of enforcing the decision fell upon the lower federal courts.
Impact of the Courts (Part II)
In Little Rock and New Orleans, where politicians sought political gain by exploiting the fears of Southern whites, initial school integration met with ugly resistance.
Impact of the Courts (Part III)
For Southern federal courts facing civil rights issues, no problem proved more difficult than voting rights.
The Civil Rights Movement
1953 - 1965. Includes historical footage of the NAACP, Birmingham sit ins and mass march, John F. Kennedy, Medgar Evers, Selma, AL and the 1965 voting rights act. |
Black Political Development
In Selma, AL, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and his Southern Christian Leadership Conference found the ingredients to create a climate for passing the Voting Rights Act.
Rise of the Republican Party
Economic development and diversity, urban growth, migration patterns and ideology all have fueled Republican growth in the South.
Politics in Transition
The Dixiecrat movement in 1948 marked the end of one era in Southern politics and launched the beginning of another.
Economic Transformation
World War II made a greater impact on the South than any event since the Civil War.
Sunbelt--Myth and Reality
As the American South approaches the end of the 20th Century, a new image of economic prosperity emerges.
The Enduring South
The story of Southern identity and culture is one of change and continuity.
The Emerging South
The Old South with its rigid social order is gone. Courts and Congress have established full political and legal rights for blacks. The civil rights movement made the exercise of those rights a reality.
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