Birmingham served as the stage for some of the most dramatic and important moments in the history of the civil rights struggle. In this vivid narrative account, Glenn Eskew traces the evolution of non
Six of the ten papers were presented at a March 1998 conference at Georgia State University. Seven of them present original primary research, two are historiographical essays, and one is an oral inter
These essays look at southern social customs within a single city in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In particular, the volume focuses on paternalism between masters and slaves, husbands
