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People Powered Movements, Southern History, Religion and Politics.

Thursday, July 24, 2014

James Lawson - Training for Nonviolent Resistance

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This is another video produced by Ackerman and York, creators of A Force More Powerful , featuring the Rev. James M. Lawson, Jr.  He talks s...
Wednesday, July 23, 2014

James Lawson Interview - Lunch Counter Sit-Ins in Nashville

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I've been working with Dr. Michael Honey on a documentary film about James Lawson this summer, and the research has led me to a number o...
Thursday, July 11, 2013

Declining Black Political Power in the U.S. South?

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The New York Times reported yesterday that black political power appears to be in decline in the U.S. South. While African Americans are ...
Monday, July 8, 2013

Moral Mondays in North Carolina and the Shifting Political Landscape of the U.S. South

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The political landscape in the Southern United States is changing - and like the geography seen from the window of an airplane, it may look ...
Sunday, July 7, 2013

Ronnie and Neil

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Neil Young  Ronnie Van Zant I've been in Seattle for the past five days spending time with friends from th...
Friday, June 21, 2013

Marshall Taylor: The Black Cyclone and the Color Line

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Marshall Taylor was the fastest man in the world in 1900.   Taylor broke dozens of world records before he was 30, and competed regularly ...
Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Photos from the Memphis Sanitation Strike of 1968

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As part of their Digital Photo Repository , The University of Memphis has a fantastic collection of photos from the Memphis Sanitation Strik...
Thursday, May 30, 2013

Shelby Foote on William Faulkner and the American South in the 1920s and 1930s

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The Paul Barret Library at Rhodes College recently acquired Shelby Foote's paper collection , including the personal journal's he ...
Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Being Memphis: Martin King, W. W. Herenton, Al Kapone and the Memphis Grizzlies

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Between games 2 and 3 of the Western Conference Finals, with the Grizz down 2 - 0 to the San Antonio Spurs, Geoff Calkins wrote a column as ...
Tuesday, January 1, 2013

A New Memphis

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The first law of thermodynamics states that within a closed system, energy can be neither created nor destroyed.  I learned this...
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