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A Lawyer’s Journey : The Morris Dees Story

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Morris Dees with Steve Fiffer
Publication Details
Book, American Bar Association, 2001
Description
This book dramatically chronicles the significant events that led Morris Dees to the front lines of the civil rights struggle and his ongoing crusade against hate groups.This is the story of the courageous and often lonely journey of a skilled and controversial trail lawyer whose career has paralleled a nation’s struggle to ensure freedom and equality for all its citizens. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Dees, Morris · Lawyers · Southern States · Biography · Civil rights workers · Civil rights movements · History · 20th century · Dees, Morris · Dees, Morris
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(LOWER LEVEL) KF373.D43 A3 2001 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	KF373.D43 A3 2001	AVAILABLE

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Desire, Violence & Divinity In Modern Southern Fiction : Katherine Anne Porter, Flannery O’Connor, Cormac McCarthy, Walker Percy

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Gary M. Ciuba
Publication Details
Book, Louisiana State University Press, 2007
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- Table of contents only
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Ciuba examines how four of the South’s most probing writers of twentieth-century fiction?Katherine Anne Porter, Flannery O’Connor, Cormac McCarthy, and Walker Percy?expose the roots of violence in southern culture. Ciuba offers an impressively broad intellectual discussion that gives universal cultural meaning to the southern experience of desire, violence, and divinity with which these four authors wrestled and out of which they wrote. Ciuba’s insights offer new ways of reading Porter, O’Connor, McCarthy, and Percy as well as their contemporaries who inhabited the same culture of violence?violence desired, dreaded, denied, and deified. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Porter, Katherine Anne, · 1890-1980 · Criticism and interpretation · O’Connor, Flannery · Criticism and interpretation · McCarthy, Cormac, · 1933- · Percy, Walker, · 1916-1990 · American literature · Southern States · History and criticism · 20th century · History and criticism · Violence in literature · Desire in literature · Ciuba, Gary M
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(UPPER LEVEL) PS261 .C48 2007 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PS261 .C48 2007	AVAILABLE

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The Color Purple

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Alice Walker
Publication Details
Book, 1st Harvest ed, Harcourt, 2003
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Celie is a poor black woman whose letters tell the story of 20 years of her life, beginning at age 14 when she is being abused and raped by her father and attempting to protect her sister from the same fate, and continuing over the course of her marriage to “Mister,” a brutal man who terrorizes her. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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African American women · Fiction · Adult child sexual abuse victims · Abused wives · Sisters · Southern States · Walker, Alice, 1944-
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(UPPER LEVEL) PS3573.A425 C6 2003 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PS3573.A425 C6 2003	AVAILABLE

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Southern Writers : A New Biographical Dictionary

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edited by Joseph M. Flora and Amber Vogel ; Bryan Giemza, assistant editor
Publication Details
Book, [New ed.], Louisiana State University Press, 2006
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- Table of contents
Description
This new edition of Southern Writers assumes its distinguished predecessor?s place as the essential reference on literary artists of the American South. Drawn from the very best minds on southern literature and covering the full spectrum of its practitioners, Southern Writers is an indispensable reference book for anyone intrigued by the subject. He is the author, editor, or coeditor of many books, including The Companion to Southern Literature: Themes, Genres, Places, People, Movements, and Motifs and the original Southern Writers: A Biographical Dictionary. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Authors, American · Homes and haunts · Southern States · Dictionaries · Biography · Intellectual life · In literature · Flora, Joseph M · Vogel, Amber · Giemza, Bryan Albin
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REFERENCE (MAIN) PS261 .S595 2006 AVAILABLE

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REFERENCE (MAIN)	PS261 .S595 2006	AVAILABLE

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The Devil’s Dream

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Lee Smith
Publication Details
Book, Putnam, 1992
Description
For the love of music, Kate is willing to defy anyone who tries to stop her. From generation to generation, the gift and love of music cannot be stopped, and no Malone is immune from its spell. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Country music · Fiction · Southern States · Smith, Lee, 1944-
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(UPPER LEVEL) PS3569.M5376 D48 1992 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PS3569.M5376 D48 1992	AVAILABLE

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Approaches To Teaching Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin

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edited by Elizabeth Ammons and Susan Belasco
Publication Details
Book, Modern Language Association of America, 2000
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Stowe, Harriet Beecher, · 1811-1896. · Uncle Tom’s cabin · 1811-1896 · Study and teaching · Didactic fiction, American · History and criticism · Uncle Tom (Fictitious character) · African Americans in literature · Plantation life in literature · Slavery in literature · Southern States · In literature · Ammons, Elizabeth · Belasco, Susan, 1950-
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(UPPER LEVEL) PS2954.U6 A66 2000 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PS2954.U6 A66 2000	AVAILABLE

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The Annotated Uncle Tom’s Cabin

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Harriet Beecher Stowe ; edited with an introduction and notes by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Hollis Robbins ; photos selected by Karen C. C. Dalton and Noam Biale
Publication Details
Book, 1st ed, W. W. Norton & Co, 2007
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- Table of contents
Description
Declared worthless and dehumanizing by James Baldwin in 1949, Uncle Tom’s Cabin has lacked literary credibility for fifty years. Uncle Tom’s Cabin, first published in 1852, galvanized the American public as no other work of fiction has ever done. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Stowe, Harriet Beecher, · 1811-1896. · Uncle Tom’s cabin · Uncle Tom (Fictitious character) · Fiction · Master and servant · African Americans · Fugitive slaves · Plantation life · Slavery · Slaves · Southern States · Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896 · Gates, Henry Louis · Robbins, Hollis, 1963- · Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896
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(UPPER LEVEL) PS2954 .U5 2007 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PS2954 .U5 2007	AVAILABLE

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The New Encyclopedia Of Southern Culture

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Charles Reagan Wilson, general editor ; James G. Thomas Jr., managing editor ; Ann J. Abadie, associate editor
Publication Details
Book, University of North Carolina Press, 2006
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- Publisher description
Description
In this volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, contributors have revised entries from the original Encyclopedia on topics ranging from religious broadcasting to snake handling and added new entries on such topics as Asian religions, Latino religion, New Age religion, Islam, Native American religion, and social activism. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Southern States · Civilization · Encyclopedias · Wilson, Charles Reagan · Thomas, James G. · Abadie, Ann J · Hill, Samuel S · Pillsbury, Richard · University of Mississippi. Center for the Study of Southern Culture

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REFERENCE (MAIN)	F209 .E53 2006 v.1	AVAILABLE
REFERENCE (MAIN)	F209 .E53 2006 v.2	AVAILABLE
REFERENCE (MAIN)	F209 .E53 2006 v.3	AVAILABLE
REFERENCE (MAIN)	F209 .E53 2006 v.4	AVAILABLE

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The White House Looks South : Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Lyndon B. Johnson

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William E. Leuchtenburg
Publication Details
Book, Louisiana State University Press, 2005
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- Table of contents
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Leuchtenburg offers an engaging account of relations between these three presidents and the South while also tracing how the region came to embrace a national perspective without losing its distinctive sense of place. Leuchtenburg explores in fascinating detail how their unique attachment to “place” helped them to adopt shifting identities, which proved useful in healing rifts between North and South, in altering behavior in regard to race, and in fostering southern economic growth. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Roosevelt, Franklin D. · (Franklin Delano), · 1882-1945 · Truman, Harry S., · 1884-1972 · Johnson, Lyndon B. · (Lyndon Baines), · 1908-1973 · Presidents · United States · Biography · Regionalism · History · 20th century · Southern States · Politics and government · Civilization · 1865-1950 · 1951- · Leuchtenburg, William Edward, 1922-
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(LOWER LEVEL) E747 .L48 2005 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	E747 .L48 2005	AVAILABLE

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Birthing A Slave : Motherhood And Medicine In The Antebellum South

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Marie Jenkins Schwartz
Publication Details
Book, Harvard University Press, 2006
Description
Birthing a Slave depicts the competing approaches to reproductive health that evolved on plantations, as both black women and white men sought to enhance the health of enslaved mothers–in very different ways and for entirely different reasons. Birthing a Slave is the first book to focus exclusively on the health care of enslaved women, and it argues convincingly for the critical role of reproductive medicine in the slave system of antebellum America. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Childbirth · Southern States · History · 19th century · Obstetrics · Gynecology · Motherhood · Reproductive health · 19th century · Women slaves · Health and hygiene · Medical care · African American women · Southern States · Medicine · history · Maternal Health Services · Women’s Health · African Americans · Reproductive Behavior · Cultural Characteristics · History, 19th Century · Southeastern United States · Schwartz, Marie Jenkins, 1946-
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(UPPER LEVEL) RG518.U5 S34 2006 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	RG518.U5 S34 2006	AVAILABLE

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Kindred

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Octavia E. Butler
Publication Details
Book, 25th anniverary edition, Beacon Press, 2003
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- Publisher description
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The twenty-fifth-anniversary edition of the classic novel that has sold over 250,000 copies Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. She is a realist, writing the most detailed social criticism and creating some of the most fascinating female characters in the genre . (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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African American women · Fiction · Slaveholders · Time travel · Slavery · Slaves · Los Angeles (Calif.) · Southern States · Butler, Octavia E
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(UPPER LEVEL) PS3552.U827 K5 2003 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PS3552.U827 K5 2003	AVAILABLE

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Reclaiming The American Farmer : The Reinvention Of A Regional Mythology In Twentieth-century Southern Writing

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Mary Weaks-Baxter
Publication Details
Book, Louisiana State University Press, 2006
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- Table of contents
Description
Weaks-Baxter shows how this agrarian fable led to a new Southern Renaissance in the late twentieth century, influencing the work of contemporary southern writers such as Madison Smartt Bell, Wendell Berry, Alice Walker, Dori Sanders, and Bobbie Ann Mason. With lively arguments and keen insights, Reclaiming the American Farmer will change the terms of discussion about the Southern Renaissance and southern literature in general as it demonstrates how mythologies can unify southerners as well as divide them. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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American literature · Southern States · History and criticism · 20th century · History and criticism · Pastoral fiction, American · Regionalism in literature · Farm life in literature · Farmers in literature · Myth in literature · Intellectual life · 1865- · In literature · Weaks-Baxter, Mary
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(UPPER LEVEL) PS261 .W43 2006 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PS261 .W43 2006	AVAILABLE

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Reinventing The South : Versions Of A Literary Region

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Mark Royden Winchell
Publication Details
Book, University of Missouri Press, 2006
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- Table of contents
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American literature · Southern States · History and criticism · Regionalism in literature · Intellectual life · 1865- · In literature · Winchell, Mark Royden, 1948-
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(UPPER LEVEL) PS261 .W56 2006 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PS261 .W56 2006	AVAILABLE

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There Goes My Everything : White Southerners In The Age Of Civil Rights, 1945-1975

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Jason Sokol
Publication Details
Book, 1st ed, Alfred A. Knopf, 2006
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Description
While the landmarks of the civil rights movement have become indelible parts of our collective memory, few have written about what life was like for white southerners who lived through that historic time. There Goes My Everything traces the origins of the civil rights struggle from World War II, when some black and white American soldiers lived and fought side by side overseas (leading them to question Jim Crow at home), to the beginnings of change in the 1950s and the flared tensions of the 1960s, into the 1970s, when strongholds of white rule suddenly found themselves overtaken by rising black political power. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Whites · Southern States · Attitudes · History · 20th century · Social conditions · Civil rights movements · 20th century · African Americans · Civil rights · Race relations · 1945- · Sokol, Jason
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(LOWER LEVEL) F220.A1 S65 2006 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	F220.A1 S65 2006	AVAILABLE

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School Resegregation : Must The South Turn Back?

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edited by John Charles Boger and Gary Orfield
Publication Details
Book, University of North Carolina Press, 2005
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- Table of contents only
- Publisher description
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Confronting a reality that many policy makers would prefer to ignore, contributors to this volume offer the latest information on the trend toward the racial and socioeconomic resegregation of southern schools. In thirteen essays, leading thinkers in the field of race and public education present not only the latest data and statistics on the trend toward resegregation but also legal and policy analysis of why these trends are accelerating, how they are harmful, and what can be done to counter them. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Segregation in education · Southern States · Congresses · School integration · Public schools · Boger, John Charles · Orfield, Gary
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(LOWER LEVEL) LC212.622 .S35 2005 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	LC212.622 .S35 2005	AVAILABLE

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