Mississippi as Metaphor
State, Region, and Nation in Historical Imagination
State, Region, and Nation in Historical Imagination
Joseph Crespino, Emory University
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Print Materials:
Carter, Dan T. The Politics of Rage: George Wallace, the Origins of the New Conservatism, and the Transformation of American Politics. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2000.
Carter, Dan T. From George Wallace to Newt Gingrich: Race in the Conservative Counterrevolution, 1963-1994. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1996.
Cobb, James C. The Most Southern Place on Earth: The Mississippi Delta and the Roots of Regional Identity. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
Cohen, Robert and Reginald E. Zelnik. The Free Speech Movement: Reflections on Berkeley in the 1960s. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.
Crespino, Joseph. In Search of Another Country: Mississippi and the Conservative Counterrevolution. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007.
Crespino, Joseph."The Best Defense Is a Good Offense: The Stennis Amendment and the Fracturing of Liberal School Desegregation Policy, 1964–1972." Journal of Policy History 18.3, (2006): 304-325.
Crosby, Emilye. A Little Taste of Freedom: The Black Freedom Struggle in Claiborne County, Mississippi. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005.
Dittmer, John. Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi. Urbana: University of Illinois, 1994.
Egerton, John. The Americanization of Dixie: The Southernization of America. New York: Harper's Magazine Press, 1974.
Moye, Todd. Let the People Decide: Black Freedom and White Resistance Movements in Sunflower County, Mississippi, 1945-1986. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004.
Payne, Charles. I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.
Schulman, Bruce. From Cotton Belt to Sunbelt: Federal Policy, Economic Development, and the Transformation of the South, 1938-1980. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.
Shafer, Byron E. and Richard Johnston, The End of Southern Exceptionalism: Class, Race and Partisan Change in the Postwar South. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006.
Silver, James W. Mississippi: The Closed Society. New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1964.
Silver, James W. Running Scared: Silver in Mississippi. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 1984.
Woodward, C. Vann. Origins of the New South, 1877-1913. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1951.
Carter, Dan T. The Politics of Rage: George Wallace, the Origins of the New Conservatism, and the Transformation of American Politics. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2000.
Carter, Dan T. From George Wallace to Newt Gingrich: Race in the Conservative Counterrevolution, 1963-1994. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1996.
Cobb, James C. The Most Southern Place on Earth: The Mississippi Delta and the Roots of Regional Identity. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
Cohen, Robert and Reginald E. Zelnik. The Free Speech Movement: Reflections on Berkeley in the 1960s. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.
Crespino, Joseph. In Search of Another Country: Mississippi and the Conservative Counterrevolution. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007.
Crespino, Joseph."The Best Defense Is a Good Offense: The Stennis Amendment and the Fracturing of Liberal School Desegregation Policy, 1964–1972." Journal of Policy History 18.3, (2006): 304-325.
Crosby, Emilye. A Little Taste of Freedom: The Black Freedom Struggle in Claiborne County, Mississippi. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005.
Dittmer, John. Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi. Urbana: University of Illinois, 1994.
Egerton, John. The Americanization of Dixie: The Southernization of America. New York: Harper's Magazine Press, 1974.
Moye, Todd. Let the People Decide: Black Freedom and White Resistance Movements in Sunflower County, Mississippi, 1945-1986. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004.
Payne, Charles. I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.
Schulman, Bruce. From Cotton Belt to Sunbelt: Federal Policy, Economic Development, and the Transformation of the South, 1938-1980. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.
Shafer, Byron E. and Richard Johnston, The End of Southern Exceptionalism: Class, Race and Partisan Change in the Postwar South. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006.
Silver, James W. Mississippi: The Closed Society. New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1964.
Silver, James W. Running Scared: Silver in Mississippi. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 1984.
Woodward, C. Vann. Origins of the New South, 1877-1913. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1951.
Links:
Brown v. Board of Education Digital Archive, University of Michigan http://www.lib.umich.edu/exhibits/brownarchive/
Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive
http://www.lib.usm.edu/~spcol/crda/index.html
Fannie Lou Hamer, Testimony Before the Credentials Committee, Democratic National Convention Atlantic City, New Jersey — August 22, 1964
http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/sayitplain/flhamer.html
Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission Files On-line
http://mdah.state.ms.us/arlib/contents/er/index.html
Mississippi Civil Rights Documentation Project
http://www.usm.edu/crdp/
Thomas, William G. “Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle:
The Views in Virginia and Mississippi.” Southern Spaces, November 3, 2004.
http://www.southernspaces.org/contents/2004/thomas/4a.htm
Wilson, Charles Reagan. “The Mississippi Delta.” Southern Spaces, April 4, 2004.
http://www.southernspaces.org/contents/2004/wilson/3a.htm
Brown v. Board of Education Digital Archive, University of Michigan http://www.lib.umich.edu/exhibits/brownarchive/
Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive
http://www.lib.usm.edu/~spcol/crda/index.html
Fannie Lou Hamer, Testimony Before the Credentials Committee, Democratic National Convention Atlantic City, New Jersey — August 22, 1964
http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/sayitplain/flhamer.html
Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission Files On-line
http://mdah.state.ms.us/arlib/contents/er/index.html
Mississippi Civil Rights Documentation Project
http://www.usm.edu/crdp/
Thomas, William G. “Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle:
The Views in Virginia and Mississippi.” Southern Spaces, November 3, 2004.
http://www.southernspaces.org/contents/2004/thomas/4a.htm
Wilson, Charles Reagan. “The Mississippi Delta.” Southern Spaces, April 4, 2004.
http://www.southernspaces.org/contents/2004/wilson/3a.htm
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