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Southerners, too? : essays on the Black South / Alton Hornsby, Jr.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hornsby, Alton.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Southern States.
- African Americans.
- Southern States.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 317 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Dallas, Tex. : University Press of America, [2004]
- Summary:
- Southerners, Too? challenges the view that "southern heritage" refers to white southerners only by revealing that, historically and culturally, African-Americans have been integral to southern life and history.
- Contents:
- Historiography and Methodology
- Chapter 1 The Changing Vicissitudes of Black Historiography 3
- Chapter 2 Drum Major on the Mountaintop: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Great Man Theory of History 13
- Chapter 3 The Central Theme Revisited-Again 19
- Chapter 4 European Intellectuals and Southern Negroes, 1877-1901 29
- State and Local Studies
- Chapter 5 A Brief History of African Americans in Georgia, 1733-1868 59
- Chapter 6 The Albany Movement within the Context of Local and Georgian History 77
- Religion
- Chapter 7 Religious Practices of Blacks in Atlanta, Georgia, 1865-1990 89
- Education
- Chapter 8 The Freedmen's Bureau Schools in Texas, 1865-1870 123
- Chapter 9 "The Colored Branch University" Issue in Texas-Prelude to Sweatt vs. Painter 145
- Chapter 10 Black Public Education in Atlanta, Georgia, 1954-1973: From Segregation to Segregation 161
- Politics and Civil Rights
- Chapter 11 Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement in Atlanta, Georgia 199
- Chapter 12 "Not Eaves Please": Race, Class, and Atlanta's First African-American Commissioner of Public Safety, 1974-1978 211
- Economics
- Chapter 13 Roots of Rural Poverty since 1914 233
- Chapter 14 Historical Discrimination in Atlanta's Marketplace 239
- Individuals
- Chapter 15 The Legacy of Grace Towns Hamilton to the Development of the City of Atlanta 259
- Chapter 16 Andrew Jackson Young: Mayor of Atlanta, 1982-1990 273
- Chapter 17 Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Man and His Philosophy 305.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0761828710
- 0761828729
- OCLC:
- 57174809
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