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Books Update from NYTimes.com
Friday, March 16, 2001
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A Hard Look at Birmingham's Civil Rights Struggles

1. In Sunday's Book Review: Diane McWhorter's "Carry Me
Home"
2. Also Reviewed: A. S. Byatt's "On Histories and Stories"
3. Audio Reading: Pat Barker
4. New in Stores: Stephen King's "Dreamcatcher"
5. In the News: Jim Crace Wins Critics Circle Fiction Award
6. New on the Best-Seller List
7. In the Forums: "Democracy in America"

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1. In Sunday's Book Review: Diane McWhorter's "Carry Me
Home"
=======================================================

In "Carry Me Home. Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle
of the Civil Rights Revolution," Diane McWhorter, a daughter
of Birmingham's white elite, explores the causes of the
city's civil rights violence during the summer of 1963. On
Sept. 15, 1963, she was about the same age as the four black
girls who were killed by the bomb that exploded at the 16th
Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala. But in her
childhood world of white Birmingham, the bombing's immediate
consequence was trivial, she writes.

Her book is "an exhaustive journey through both the
segregationist and integrationist sides of Birmingham's
struggle," writes reviewer David K. Shipler. McWhorter
"expertly follows the tangled threads of culpability until
they reveal what she calls 'the long tradition of enmeshment
between law enforcers and Klansmen,' which included the
Federal Bureau of Investigation as well as the state and
city police. Her precision in filling in the particulars of
that collaboration contributes significantly to the
historical record," in Shipler's view.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/01/03/18/reviews/010318.18shiplet.html?0316bk

An Interview with Diane McWhorter

McWhorter discusses her father's involvement with the Klan,
which is an important part of her book. She also explains
why it took 19 years to write what she first envisioned as a
modest memoir.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/01/03/18/reviews/010318.18applet.html?0316bk


2. Also Reviewed: A. S. Byatt's "On Histories and Stories"
==========================================================

In her new book, "On Histories and Stories: Selected
Essays," A. S. Byatt explores the intersections of history
and fiction, a "two-way street," writes reviewer Thomas
Mallon, a critic and novelist, that is "on Byatt's patrol,
busier than ever." Recent historians, including Simon
Schama, she writes, have "made deliberate and self-conscious
attempts to restore narration to history" in books like
"Citizens." Conversely, "the idea that 'all history is
fiction' has led to a new interest in fiction as history."
http://www.nytimes.com/books/01/03/18/reviews/010318.18mallont.html?0316bk

Featured Author: A. S. Byatt
This retrospective features collected reviews of Byatt's
earlier books, including "Possession" (1990) and "The Djinn
in the Nightingale's Eye" (1997), articles by the author and
an audio reading from the story collection "Elementals."
http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/06/13/specials/byatt.html?0316bk


-----

"Treason by the Book," by Jonathan D. Spence

In his new book, Spence, a Yale historian and recent
biographer of Mao, explores the China of the early 18th
century, when Manchu rulers occupied the throne. Reviewer
Ian Buruma writes that the book is "a slice of history told
in the lively manner of a novel." The subject here is "an
elaborate intellectual witch hunt" that grows out of an
anonymously written letter full of anti-Manchu sentiments.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/01/03/18/reviews/010318.18burumat.html?0316bk

-----

"IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi
Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation," by Edwin
Black.

This controversial book -- and instant best seller --
reports on the author's finding that I.B.M. knowingly
provided the Third Reich with the technology to identify
German Jews in the period 1933-39, and that I.B.M. founder
Thomas J. Watson eagerly conspired with the Nazis as they
carried out their murderous program. Reviewing the book is
Gabriel Schoenfeld, senior editor of Commentary magazine,
who writes that Black "often tells his story not in the
subtle hues of genuine scholarship but in the Day-Glo paint
of the potboiler."

"The key question, in any case, is not whether I.B.M. sold
Germany its equipment but whether, as alleged, it made the
Final Solution part of its 'mission' and whether its
relationship with Germany in any way 'energized' or
significantly 'enhanced' Hitler's efforts to destroy world
Jewry. On the first point," Schoenfeld continues, "Black
never even attempts to substantiate his accusation -- a
scandalous omission considering the gravity of the charge.
As for the second, his shaky evidence leads him to oscillate
between two completely irreconcilable positions."
http://www.nytimes.com/books/01/03/18/reviews/010318.18schoent.html?0316bk


3. Audio Reading: Pat Barker
============================

Pat Barker is perhaps best known for her "Regeneration"
trilogy. Her latest novel, "Border Crossing," writes
reviewer Richard Eder, "is an angry work, though narrower in
its desolation, more explicitly didactic and, to that
extent, less alive. It does provide some of the same
exhilarating moral exploration, and prose as naked and
jolting as an unwrapped live wire."
http://www.nytimes.com/books/01/03/18/reviews/010318.18ederlt.html?0316bk

In an exclusive audio recording, Pat Barker reads from the
first chapter of "Border Crossing," in which the protagonist
braves the icy waters of the River Tyne to save a drowning
man.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/05/16/specials/barker.html#audio?0316bk

Featured Author: Pat Barker

This retrospective includes reviews of Barker's
"Regeneration" trilogy and other New York Times coverage of
her career, including an interview.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/05/16/specials/barker.html?0316bk


4. New in Stores: Stephen King's "Dreamcatcher"
===============================================

"Dreamcatcher," by Stephen King -- March 20

The yearly reunion of four old friends in the woods of Maine
is interrupted by a strange man, whose body may have been
taken over by space aliens. In her review for The Times,
Janet Maslin wrote "there is a new urgency" in King's novel,
his first since he was grievously injured in 1999.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/15/arts/15MASL.html?0316bk


5. In the News: Jim Crace Wins Critics Circle Fiction Award
===========================================================

Jim Crace of Britain was awarded the National Book Critics
Circle Award for best fiction for "Being Dead," a novel
about the murder of a middle-aged couple on the beach dunes
where they met 30 years earlier. The article includes links
to reviews of "Being Dead" and news about the winners in
other categories.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/13/arts/13BOOK.html?0316bk

For a digest of this week's book news, visit:
http://www.nytimes.com/books/yr/mo/day/daily/index.html?0316bk


6. New on the Best-Seller List
==============================

Hardcover Fiction
#1) "First to Die," by James Patterson

Four women -- a homicide inspector, a medical examiner, an
assistant district attorney and a journalist -- search for a
killer who is stalking newlyweds.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/yr/mo/day/bsp/index.html?0316bk

A note on our best-seller policy: The Times on the Web
publishes the New York Times best-seller lists a week in
advance of the printed Sunday Book Review. The best-seller
lists published this week on the Web will appear in the
print edition dated March 25 and are based on sales through
last weekend.


7. In the Forums: "Democracy in America"
========================================

Members of the Reading Group can rarely be accused of undue
deference to a classic. One reader, expressing
disappointment with Alexis de Tocqueville's analysis of
America, wrote "I fail to see this as the work of a scholar,
but of a popular scientist playing into most of the
previously held conceptions and misconceptions of American
democracy." And several Americans in the Reading Group have
reacted with instinctive cultural pride to de Tocqueville's
comment that, as of the 1830's, "America has hitherto
produced few writers of distinction."

There has been particular criticism of de Tocqueville's
overview of racial issues in America. "I felt that
Tocqueville wasn't particularly interested in the subject,"
wrote one participant, "and just slopped something
together." But the book has its defenders, such as one
reader, who writes, "To criticize this work in the modern
context would miss the point."
http://www.nytimes.com/books/forums/index.html?0316bk


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well as new novels, available in stores next week, by
Stephen King and Robert B. Parker. Please let me know your
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*Fairhope goes about business of festival
http://www.al.com/news/mobile/?Mar2001/17-a442584a.html
Mobile Register 17 March 2001

*1899 March 18- A tornado, rated F4, killed 12 people and injured 30 on a 17
mile
track through Calhoun and Cleburne counties in Alabama.
The Weather Company <jpspann@...>

*1941 March 18- Wilson Pickett is born in Prattville, Alabama.  He will
become
         Rhythm & Blues singer and will begin his career as the lead
         tenor with The Falcons ("I Found a Love" - 1962).  He will
         become a solo artist and release the hits, "Funky Broadway,"
         "In the Midnight Hour," "Land of 1000 Dances," "Mustang Sally,"
         "It's Too Late," and "Don't Knock My Love." He will be inducted
         into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1991.
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*1919 March 17- Nathaniel Adams Coles is born in Montgomery, Alabama.
Better
         known as Nat "King" Cole, he will start his musical career in
         a band with his brother Eddie and in a production of "Shuffle
         Along."  Leader of the King Cole Trio, he will achieve
         international acclaim as a jazz pianist before becoming an
         even more popular balladeer known for such songs as "Mona
         Lisa," "The Christmas Song" and "Unforgettable."  Cole will
         also have the distinction of being the first African American
         to host a network television variety show (1956-1957), a pioneer
         in breaking down racial barriers in Las Vegas, and a founding
         member of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences,
         which will honor him with a posthumous Lifetime Achievement Grammy
         in 1989.
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The 4th annual AWS will be held in Monroeville May 3-5, 2001...info at

http://www.ascc.edu/WritersSymposium/symp1.htm

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This documentary, which has been nominated for an Academy Award, will be
shown April 2 as part of PBS' "American Experience" program...more info at

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/scottsboro/index.html

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1965 - Thousands of marchers complete the first leg of a five-day
         freedom march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, dramatizing
         the denial of voting rights for African Americans.  Led by
         Martin Luther King, Jr., thousands of marchers are protected
         by U.S. Army troops and federalized Alabama National Guardsmen
         because of violence encountered earlier, including the fatal
         beating of a white minister, Reverend James J. Reeb.

1981 - Michael Donald, an African American teen-ager in Mobile, Alabama,
         is abducted, tortured and killed in what prosecutors charge is a
         Ku Klux Klan plot. A lawsuit brought by the Southern Poverty Law
         Center on behalf of Donald's mother, Beulah Mae Donald, will
         later result in a landmark $ 7 million judgment that bankrupts
         The United Klans of America.

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*The Weather Notebook for Wednesday, March 21, 2001.
ABC 33/40 <matt@...>


1932 - A major outbreak of tornadoes from Mississippi eastward to South
Carolina and northward to Indiana. Nearly all the deaths occurred in Alabama

making this the worst tornado day in the state's history. 31 twisters
touched down across Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia and Tennessee. 36
tornadoes were rated F2 or greater on the Fujita scale with 10 violent (F4)
tornadoes. A total of 268 people were killed and over 2100 were injured.

1952 - Killer tornadoes ravaged Arkansas, Missouri, Tennessee, and
Mississippi. 17 tornadoes were rated F2 or greater in intensity with 7 of
those rated F4. The outbreak was the worst in Arkansas history. 31 tornadoes

reported in Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas, Missouri and
Kentucky. 13 tornadoes were reported in both Tennessee and Arkansas.
Judsonia and Bald Knob, Arkansas were hit by one of these F4 tornadoes. The
only building left standing at Judsonia was a church, the rest of the town
devastated by a one and one half mile wide twister. 50 people were killed
and 325 were injured. Damage was set at $3.5 million. Another F4 tornado
tore up Bolivar and Henderson, Tennessee with 38 killed and 157 injured. A
total of 202 people were killed and 1226 were injured in this outbreak. 3500

homes were destroyed.
*

Central Alabama is one of three regions included in this study...aj wright
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-----Original Message-----
From: H-South Review Editor Ian Binnington [mailto:binningt@...]
Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 8:37 AM
To: H-SOUTH@...
Subject: H-South Review: Boswell on Schwartz, _Born in Bondage_


H-NET BOOK REVIEW
Published by H-South@... (March 2001)

Marie Jenkins Schwartz. _Born in Bondage: Growing Up Enslaved in the
Antebellum South_. Cambridge, Mass., and London, Eng.: Harvard University
Press, 2000. xii + 272 pp. Illustrations, map, notes, and index. $35
(cloth), ISBN 0-674-00162-1.

Reviewed for H-South by Angela Boswell, boswela@..., Department of
Social Sciences, Henderson State University

Breeding Loyalty

When young Emma Howard's master punished her, she threatened to tell her
mother. Amused, her master remarked, "that little devil don't know I'm her
Master" (p. 104). From this experience, Emma Howard learned that she had
two sets of adults with a claim to her obedience.

In _Born and Bondage_, Marie Jenkins Schwartz uses WPA slave narratives as
well as diaries, letters, and account books left by slave holders to
compare and contrast parents' and slaveowners' expectations, hopes, and
meanings attached to a child born in slavery. Masters and parents both
hoped to impart to the children their own beliefs about slavery,
self-esteem, and the southern social system. Tracing the stages of a slave
child's life from conception and birth to courtship and marriage, this book
details the way that decisions were made about raising enslaved children
and the way slave children learned to perceive their own lives.

The very youthfulness of the slave population in the South was distinctive.
While other slave societies in the Americas relied upon continuing imports
of slaves, most slaves in the antebellum United States were native-born. As
a result over two-fifths of the slave population in the South was younger
than fifteen. While this phenomenon has been often noted by historians of
slavery, _Born in Bondage_ makes an important addition to only a handful of
studies devoted to slave children and to the effect that "growing" slaves
had on the peculiar institution in the antebellum South.[1]

Schwartz maintains that in this unique slave society, masters took a great
interest in the health and raising of enslaved children. Births of slaves
represented not only the most cost-efficient way to add to their
inventories of chattel property, but also an opportunity to raise docile,
obedient, faithful, and thus productive slave workers. Slave parents, on
the other hand, wished to retain as much control over their children as
possible, teaching them not only how to endure the system of slavery but
also self-esteem, heritage, and their parents' values.

Schwartz's most important contribution to the history of slavery is her
detail of the stages of enslaved children's lives. Beginning with birth and
infancy, she moves to describing young children in the quarter, and the
introduction and "education" of children to the working environment in
which they would live their lives. When strong enough, children were moved
to field work where if they proved themselves able they were at the
greatest risk of being separated by sale. The last stage for enslaved
children was young love and marriage and thus the beginning of slave
families of their own. Slave parents exerted much more control over the
raising of their own children at the youngest ages, although masters and
mistresses intervened and influenced decisions even at this stage. For
instance, Fanny Kemble Butler rewarded those parents who kept their
infants' heads uncovered or ceased the practices of swaddling and swathing,
all popular among the slave community. As the children grew, parents
continued many forms of resistance to the masters' decisions, but slowly
lost ever more control over the decisions affecting their children
including at what age their children went to the fields, whether or not
they would be sold away, and even who and when they married and began their
own families.

Studying three different regions -- central Virginia, central Alabama, and
coastal South Carolina and Georgia -- Schwartz proposes that "continuities
in child-care practices would offer evidence that African Americans had
forged a common culture, especially if they differed from those of the
owners" (p. 17). Although never explicitly stated, Schwartz's study does
seem to show that in all three areas slave parents had different ideas than
their masters of how their children should be raised. Despite the different
work details and expectations in each area, slave parents hoped to spare
their children as long as possible from masters' control, keep slave
children contributing to the slave family's household, and to delay or
lessen the risk of separation by sale.

If readers look to _Born in Bondage_ to answer the great historiographical
question of whether slaves controlled their own lives or were controlled by
their masters, they will be disappointed. Schwartz often presents
contradictory evidence. On the one hand, "A determined family might succeed
in withholding a child from the field, at least for a short while" (p.
142). On the other hand, she cites many more instances of owners choosing
to put even extremely young slave children into the fields due to financial
necessity. While she argues that the parents and youths themselves made the
decision when children were sent to the field, she also shows that masters
controlled that decision in ways such as withholding food from children who
did not work. While frustrating at times to read this contradictory
evidence on successive pages, it actually aptly illustrates the
contradictions inherent in the slave institution in the South: masters
attempting to calculate and control as "property," human beings with human
desires and wishes of their own.

Although Schwartz offers evidence that the entire slave community
participated in the raising of children, she maintains in her introduction
and throughout that "the majority of slave children while young lived in
homes with two parents" (p. 50). This basic assumption seemingly relies
upon Herbert G. Gutman's and other historians' 1970s works without taking
into account more recent works that offer evidence that the institution of
slavery produced households headed primarily by women.[2] Even Schwartz's
own evidence seems to contradict her assumptions. Not including the chapter
on the "Birth of a Slave" which is almost exclusively devoted to enslaved
women giving birth, in 65 percent of her examples of slave "parents," the
one parent discussed is actually a mother. Only in 19 percent of her
examples is it clear that there are two parents living in the family. This
oversight hardly negates the important conclusions of her work. However, it
does fail to recognize that an important effect of slavery was that the
common culture of childraising among African Americans in the South was
shaped primarily by women.

Overall, Schwartz has contributed greatly to understanding how slave
parents negotiated the difficulties of answering to a master while
maintaining and passing to their children their own culture and ideas of
self-worth.

1. Other notable studies of slave children include Thomas L. Webber, _Deep
Like the Rivers: Education in the Slave Quarter Community, 1831-1865_ (New
York: Norton, 1978), Wilma King, _Stolen Childhood: Slave Youth in
Nineteenth-Century America_ (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995),
and Peter Bardaglio, "The Children of Jubilee: African American Childhood
in Wartime," in Catherine Clinton and Nina Silber, eds., _Divided Houses:
Gender and the Civil War_ (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press,
1992).

2. See for instance, Deborah Gray White, _Ar'n't I a Woman? Female Slaves
in the Plantation South_, (New York and London: W. W. Norton & Company,
1985); Darlene Clark Hine and Kathleen Thompson, _A Shining Thread of Hope:
The History of Black Women in America_, (New York: Broadway Books, 1988),
and Brenda E. Stevenson, _Life in Black and White: Family and Community in
the Slave South_, (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996).

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*Interesting things that happened March 23rd:

Birthdays on this date:

   In 1912 Werner von Braun, rocket scientist

*Panther Pride burns brightly 50 years later
http://www.al.com/news/mobile/?Mar2001/23-a447356a.html
Mobile Register 23 March 2001
*Bama queens head to Jackson for St. Paddy's
http://www.al.com/news/mobile/?Mar2001/23-a350463a.html
Mobile Register 23 March 2001
*Festival helps children learn about Japanese culture


http://www.datelinealabama.com/parsetemp.pl?temp=story_show.html&rec_num=730


Dataline Alabama [University of Alabama] 23 March 2001

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*Quinlan Castle may find style ;Firm may buy, build luxury apartments
http://www.al.com/news/birmingham/?Mar2001/25-e193403b.html
Birmingham News 25 March 2001

*1983  March 24- A late March snowstorm set many heavy snow records for so
late in the
season from east-central Alabama, across northern Georgia and parts of the
Carolinas. Records included 11 inches at Cornelia, Georgia, 10 inches at
Charlotte, North Carolina, 8.7 inches at Athens, Georgia, and 7.9 inches at
Atlanta GA. It was the heaviest snowfall ever for the Georgia capital and
the most ever recorded in March.
From: Weather Notebook  Sat, 24 Mar 2001  ABC 33/40 <matt@...>
*Survivor, pianist Fisher dies at 93
http://www.al.com/news/mobile/?Mar2001/25-a400129a.html
Mobile Register 25 March 2001

*Bookworms, get ready!
http://www.al.com/news/mobile/?Mar2001/25-a400211a.html
Mobile Register 25 March 2001

*Alabama River traffic recedes to a trickle
http://www.al.com/news/mobile/?Mar2001/25-a400147a.html
Mobile Register 25 March 2001

*1901 March 25- As many as 20 or more people are killed by an F3 tornado
that moved
across parts of Birmingham, Alabama. The twister cut a 15 mile path from the

south side of the city across to Avondale and then to Irondale.
From: Weather Notebook  Sun, 25 Mar 2001  ABC 33/40 <matt@...>

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-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher Windolph [mailto:cjw@...]
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2001 2:24 PM
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Subject: CFP: 19th C. South/Southern Autobiography (3/?/02 & 7/?/02;
journal issue)


CALL FOR PAPERS

The SOUTHERN LITERARY JOURNAL is planning two issues devoted to individual
topics. For Fall 2002, the editors invite submissions focusing on
nineteenth-century southern writers, of any genre or style, with emphasis on
new approaches, new readings, or previously neglected authors and works. For
Spring 2003, the editors invite submissions focusing on southern
autobiography--black or white, male or female, classic or contemporary--and
the autobiographical impulse (as manifested in fiction as well as
autobiography and memoir) endemic to southern authorship.

Respondents should follow normal submission procedures (available on SLJ's
website) but indicate in a cover letter their wish to be considered for one
of these two issues. Manuscripts should be received before March 2002 and
July 2002, respectively.

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Direct questions to: Christopher Windolph, Managing Editor / SOUTHERN
LITERARY JOURNAL / CB#3520 Greenlaw Hall / University of North Carolina /
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-----Original Message-----
From: Kathleen C. Hilton [mailto:KCH@...]
Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2001 2:55 PM
To: H-SAWH@...
Subject: ANN: Fulbright opportunities in American History


Subject: ANN: Fulbright opportunities in American History
Date: Tue, 27 MAR 2001 11:57:37 -0500

Fulbright opportunities in American History
Grant Date: 2001-08-01

The Fulbright Scholar Program is offering 141 lecturing/research awards in
American History for the 2002-2003 academic year. Awards for both faculty
and professionals range from two months to an academic year. A new
short-term grants program "the Fulbright Senior Specialists Program" offers
two-to-six week grants. While foreign language skills are needed in some
countries, most Fulbright lecturing assignments are in English.

Application deadlines for 2002-2003 awards are:

* May 1, 2001 for Fulbright Distinguished Chair awards in Europe, Canada
and Russia
* August 1, 2001 for Fulbright traditional lecturing and research grants
worldwide.
* Rolling deadline for Fulbright Senior Specialists Program

For information, visit our Web site at http://www.cies.org. Or contact:

The Council for International Exchange of Scholars
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Contact information:
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-----Original Message-----
From: Paula C. Barnes [mailto:drbarnes@...]
Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2001 9:46 PM
To: H-WOMEN@...
Subject: QU: African-American club women's involvement in Civil Rights
Movement


   To H-Net Readers:
   I have a question about African-American club women's involvement in
the Civil Rights Movement in the South during the 1950s.  The Chicago
chapter of the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs (NACW) was
supportive of Rosa Parks and the Montgomery bus boycott.  For example,
they wrote letters of support, as well as sent money.  Has anyone found
similar kinds of involvement with southern or northern chapters of the
NACW or the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW) during the 1950s?  I
know that many African-American women were members of their NAACP
chapters and so turned to activism there.  But I am specifically
interested in the NACW or the NCNW.
   Thanks,
   Anne Meis Knupfer


===================================================
   Anne Meis Knupfer
   Purdue University
   Department of Educational Studies
   knupfer@...
===================================================

...for the Alabama Public Television programs "The Alabama Experience" and
"Bookmark" [which often features Alabama authors] can be found at

http://www.alabamatv.org/schedule.htm

--aj wright // ajwright@...

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  this book, published by LSU Press
http://lsumvs.sncc.lsu.edu/lsupress/fall2000_books/fall2000/crowther.html

Cathedrals of Kudzu
A Personal Landscape of the South
Hal Crowther
Foreword by Fred Hobson
Illustrations by Steven Cragg
"I don't know of a more impassioned or ultimately saner voice now writing in
America." --Reynolds Price
"Hal Crowther is a sage in that rare American grain Paine, Twain, Mencken
with an inspired eye for the telling subject." --Norman Rush
Crowther prides himself on being one of the last generalists in a profession
of specialists. His eloquent essays on culture, history, politics, religion,
arts, and literature have established him as one of the most influential
southern journalists of his generation. Cathedrals of Kudzu represents his
ambition to "cover" the South its writers, politicians, geniuses, saints,
villains, and eccentric folkways with the same wide-angle lens H. L. Mencken
used to capture all of America in the 1920s.
In these superb essays, most of them first published in The Oxford American,
Hal Crowther sorts out a whole warehouse of southern idiosyncrasy and
iconography, including the southern belle, Faulkner, James Dickey, Stonewall
Jackson, Cormac McCarthy, Walker Percy, Erskine Caldwell, guns, dogs,
fathers, trees, George Wallace, Elvis, Doc Watson, the decline of poetry,
and the return of chain gangs.
Taken as a whole, Hal Crowther's pieces offer a portrait of the modern South
with a rich backdrop of its history and its classic literature. More
personally, they present a vivid intellectual self-portrait of the man
Kirkpatrick Sale has called "the best essayist working in journalism today."
But unlike Mencken, who was incorrigibly cynical about his subjects,
Crowther is capable of affectionate, even sentimental concessions, even to
some of the most dubious players who cross his stage.
A former editor and critic for Time and Newsweek, a screenwriter, on
weekdays a prizewinning syndicated columnist, Hal Crowther devotes his
essays in the bimonthly Oxford American to southern manners and letters. He
lives in Hillsborough, North Carolina, and is married to novelist Lee Smith.

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-----Original Message-----
From: smedina@... [mailto:smedina@...]
Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 9:48 AM
To: NAAL-L@...
Subject: An Insider's View of 'Scottsboro'


For Your Information:
----- Forwarded by Sue O Medina/ACHE on 03/28/2001 09:43 AM -----

This article from The Chronicle of Higher Education
(http://chronicle.com) was forwarded to you from: smedina@...

   From the issue dated March 30, 2001

  An Insider's View of 'Scottsboro'

   By JAMES GOODMAN

    When I was in graduate school, my classmates and I, observing
   how small the world of academic history could be, joked about
   starting a journal. We would call it The New York Review of
   Our Own Books, and in it we would, needless to say, review our
   own books.

   Well, life often imitates art, or imagined art, and two
   decades later, here I am, reviewing Scottsboro: An American
   Tragedy, a documentary about the court case and cause celebre
   that took the name of the northern Alabama town where, in late
   March 1931, nine black youths were falsely accused of the rape
   of two white women on a freight train. Ten days later the
   accused were put on trial, and quickly convicted. Eight of
   them were sentenced to death.

   I am reviewing the documentary even though the producers and
   co-directors, Barak Goodman (no relation) and Daniel Anker,
   were inspired to make the film by my book on the case. I am
   reviewing it even though I advised them and appear in their
   film.

   And it is embarrassing. But not, as I might have argued 20
   years ago, because I am too close to the project for a clear,
   detached, critical view.

   No, it is embarrassing because I am a historian, with no
   special training in film, unless you count the half-year film
   elective I took in the 11th grade. What's more, I am the
   fairest of fair-weather film fans. I love great films, but
   have little patience for the mediocre and none for trash. My
   wife would say, without exaggeration, that I have slept
   through many more films than I have seen.

   And so you might expect me to play the time-honored role of
   smarmy historian, criticizing the film as if it were a history
   book, rapping with my ruler the knuckles of the commercially
   minded or cavalier filmmakers for playing fast and loose with
   the Scottsboro facts. But in fact, they don't, and I won't. My
   few qualms about this compelling, informative, and often
   moving film have more to do with the filmmakers' stylistic
   inhibitions, their reluctance to improvise on the historical
   documentary's tried and true, but by now also predictable,
   form.

   Historical documentaries are more than history books with
   pictures and music projected on a screen. But with money for
   serious documentaries hard to come by, filmmakers either get
   public funding or make films for cable television. To get
   public funding, they must put together a small team of
   academic advisers and, at least in the early stages of their
   projects, they must please them.

   At some point along the way, filmmakers bring their advisers
   to the same town, house them, feed them, and then set them up
   around a big table to discuss a script or an early cut. While
   the experts have their say, the filmmakers nod their heads,
   ask questions, and take notes, furiously. Every now and then,
   they tactfully suggest some of the differences between books
   and films.

   The meeting adjourns. The filmmakers take aspirin. Then they
   take what they can use of the criticism, and leave the rest on
   the cutting-room floor. The religious among them pray that not
   too many of the historians review their films.

   Goodman and Anker need not worry about the historians. They
   tell a gripping story -- of the incident on the train; the
   near lynching the night the youths were arrested; the first
   four trials; the fight between the Communist Party and the
   N.A.A.C.P. for control of the defense; the appeals and
   dramatic 1933 retrials; the defendants' years in jail; and the
   Supreme Court decisions -- without messing with or bungling
   the essential facts. Scottsboro was a complicated case --
   there were 12 trials in all -- and there is hardly a
   paragraph-long encyclopedia entry on it that does not make an
   error or two. The errors in this film are few (the defendants'
   first prison protest came not in April 1931 after two weeks in
   jail but in April 1933, after two brutal years), and they are
   relatively insignificant. Viewers will see that the defendants
   were innocent, their denials wholly corroborated by the
   evidence. There was no rape, no assault, no interaction
   whatsoever between them and their accusers. But viewers will
   also see how -- in light of the story that their accusers
   told, and the image of black men in most white minds -- so
   many white Alabamans could honestly believe that the
   defendants were guilty of a horrible crime.

   Goodman and Anker use the steady, grave storyteller's voice of
   their narrator, Andre Braugher, the vivid memories of an
   impressive range of witnesses, and the insights of numerous
   talking heads to lay out the contexts in which those facts
   make the most sense: the Great Depression, the memory of
   Reconstruction, communism and anti-communism; race relations
   in the age of segregation; and, running through them all, the
   knotted threads of region, social class, gender, race, sex,
   and rape.

   Specialists will feel slighted; we always do. Alabama
   historians, keenly aware of the degree to which the politics
   of the Scottsboro prosecution were local, may wish the
   filmmakers had paid more attention to state politics. Legal
   historians will wish Goodman and Anker had put more emphasis
   on legal contexts, the place of the case in the history of
   constitutional law.

   My own quibble has to do with proportion. The last third of
   the film, which covers the last four years of trials and the
   long struggle after the last trial and appeal to secure the
   release of all the defendants from prison, is rushed, as if
   the filmmakers had run out of film or time.

   They may have. The film-festival cut of Scottsboro was 97
   minutes. But Goodman and Anker had to cut the film to 84
   minutes to fit the format of The American Experience, the PBS
   series of which this program is a part. Eighty-four minutes is
   barely enough time to tell the full story of the court case,
   and, to their credit, Goodman and Anker realized that
   Scottsboro was not just a court case, or even just an Alabama
   or Southern story. Their Scottsboro is an American story, a
   story of a half-dozen varieties of prejudice, outside the
   courtroom as well as inside, Northern as well as Southern. It
   is also a tragedy -- the defendants spent no fewer than six
   and as many as 19 years in prison.

   But it is a tragedy from which much good came, including two
   landmark Supreme Court decisions. In the first, Powell v.
   Alabama, the justices used the equal-protection clause of the
   Fourteenth Amendment to establish the right to counsel in
   capital cases; in the second, Norris v. Alabama, they used it
   to proscribe the exclusion of blacks from grand juries.
   Equally important -- and thanks in no small part to the
   agitation of the Communist Party and all the people it rallied
   to the defendants' sides -- Scottsboro encouraged countless
   white Americans to join black Americans in the struggle for
   equality, a struggle that white Americans had largely
   abandoned during Reconstruction.

   The documentary succeeds as history, and as film, too. Goodman
   and Anker use photographs, newsreels, tape recordings, and
   film footage (including a long buried cache of courtroom
   photographs and Scottsboro film found in Soviet archives) to
   put the past up on the screen and set it in motion. We see
   hobos hopping on and off freight trains; lawyers rushing to
   court; jurors walking out; stone-faced jailers escorting
   stone-faced prisoners to and from jail; communists marching;
   key witnesses strolling down the sidewalk; police routing
   demonstrators; and radicals speaking out against segregation,
   lynching, disfranchisement, peonage, and inequality before the
   law.

   Moreover, what the stills and films from the 1930's do not
   allow them to do, Goodman and Anker do with their own cameras:
   trains on long lonely stretches of track; horses and plows;
   blurred Appalachian landscape as it would appear from the top
   of a moving boxcar; bright white courthouses and Black Belt
   cotton fields; fires in coal cars and fires in hobo jungles;
   American flags and Confederate flags. Those images help set
   the scene and subtly suggest the film's themes of isolation,
   hardship, movement, injustice, agitation, combustion,
   backlash, and change.

   With archival images, their own images, and Edward Bilous's
   ominous, mournful score, Goodman and Anker allow us to see and
   feel the jitters, the frustration, the anger, the palpable
   dangers, the precarious beat and rhythm of the place and time.
   Inside and outside the courtroom, lives were on the line; all
   over America, essential elements of the future were in play.
   And no one knew the end of the story. Now we do, and yet the
   filmmakers still manage to capture the anxiety and the stakes.

   Perhaps because I am so familiar with the case and controversy
   -- the facts, evidence, and interpretations -- I am especially
   grateful for the moments when the filmmakers went beyond the
   conventional documentary formula, the careful juxtaposition of
   documents, witnesses, and talking heads.

   Truth be told, I would have liked even more risk-taking, and I
   find myself wondering if, in their future work, Goodman and
   Anker will feel confident enough as historians to explore
   further innovations in nonfiction storytelling. Historical
   accuracy needn't come at the expense of visual ingenuity.
   Those academic advisers should be a safety net, not a
   straitjacket.

   But that's a very high bar set by an insider, one of a handful
   of Scottsboro specialists, a historian deeply engaged by
   questions of form. My guess is that the film's general
   audience, viewers captivated by history, true crime, the
   civil-rights movement, or the law, will (like the members of
   the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences who nominated
   the film for an Oscar) treasure the justice that this film
   does to Scottsboro.

   James Goodman, an associate professor of history at Rutgers
   University at Newark, is the author of Stories of Scottsboro
   (Pantheon, 1994).
   _______________________________________________________________

Chronicle subscribers can read this article on the Web at this address:
http://chronicle.com/weekly/v47/i29/29b01401.htm

You may visit The Chronicle as follows:

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________________________________________________________________
Copyright 2001 by The Chronicle of Higher Education

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*Web site provides key to open Probate Court archives
http://www.al.com/news/mobile/?Mar2001/26-a405813a.html
Mobile Register 26 March 2001
*Bible outlet climbs high in Christian retail world
http://www.al.com/news/birmingham/?Mar2001/26-e346172b.html
Birmingham News 26 March 2001
*Capitol harmony: Landscape proposal seeks order for army of statues on
historic site
http://www.al.com/news/birmingham/?Mar2001/26-e186591a.html
Birmingham News 26 March 2001
*Commission declares April Confederate History Month
http://www.al.com/news/mobile/?Mar2001/28-a427620a.html
Mobile Register 28 March 2001
*1920 March 28- Major outbreak of tornadoes from Alabama and Georgia to
Michigan.
Tornado in Chicago kills 20. Worst in city's history. 50 killed in Alabama
and Georgia. West Point GA hardest hit. 20 people were killed and 300 were
injured as an F4 tornado ripped through Will and Cook counties in Illinois.
Total damage was 2 million dollars.
FROM: Weather Notebook  Wed, 28 Mar 2001 ABC 33/40 <matt@...> To:
wxnotebook@...

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE
"Scottsboro: An American Tragedy"
Monday, April 2, 2001 (9-10:30 pm)
In March 1931, two white women stepped from a box car in Paint Rock,
Alabama, to make a shocking accusation: they had been raped by nine
black teenagers on the train. This documentary, nominated for an
Academy Award(r), presents the story of the trial of the nine falsely
accused teens which drew North and South into their sharpest conflict
since the Civil War, yielded two momentous Supreme Court decisions and
gave birth to the civil rights movement. (CC, Stereo, WWW:
http://pbs.org/amex/scottsboro/,

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*1991 March 29- Weak tornadoes can kill too. F1 tornado struck town of
Munford
Alabama at 530am, destroying 8 mobile homes. Family of four killed when
their trailer home sailed airborne. Total fatalities: 5.
FROM: Weather Notebook Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001  ABC 33/40
<matt@...>
*'Tall ships' wanted for next year's tricentennial
http://www.al.com/news/mobile/?Mar2001/30-a447327a.html
Mobile Register 30 March 2001
*A love of literature
http://www.al.com/news/mobile/?Mar2001/30-a352916a.html
Mobile Register 30 March 2001
*Colony records sent to Virginia for preservation [Fairhope]
http://www.al.com/news/mobile/?Apr2001/2-a400724a.html
Mobile Register 2 April 2001
*Nurse Ruth Reynolds, who served two Mobile hospitals, dies at 74
http://www.al.com/news/mobile/?Apr2001/2-a400592a.html
Mobile Register 2 April 2001
*Tall ships a sensational idea
http://www.al.com/news/mobile/?Apr2001/2-a401064a.html
Mobile Register 2 April 2001

http://al.com/news/birmingham/?Mar2001/27-e417623b.html

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Dear Alabama History list,

Anybody else see the PBS documentary on Scottsboro which aired in various
places around the country last night?  Just curious if anybody on the list
had anything to say about it.

Thanks,

Mike Fitzgerald
fitz@...

fyi..aj wright // ajwright@...
APRIL 03, 01:10 EST
CSS Alabama Relics Being Recovered
By GARRY MITCHELL
Associated Press Writer
MOBILE, Ala. (AP) - A ship's pennant from Tasmania. A flag from South
Africa. Cannons from the wreckage off the coast of France.
Slowly, but surely, relics from the sunken Confederate raider CSS Alabama
are being recovered, and with them a piece of Southern naval history.
The Alabama sank June 11, 1864, in about 200 feet of water in the English
Channel after a battle with the Union's USS Kearsage.
In June, divers plan to return to the 135-year-old Alabama wreck site off
Cherbourg, France, in hopes of finding more cannons and other relics, which
will be unveiled at the Museum of Mobile on Sept. 14.
Museum director George Ewert said the CSS Alabama exhibit will include ship
artifacts never before displayed in the United States and will be a key
feature of Mobile's 2002 tricentennial celebration.
Built for the Confederacy by a company in Liverpool, England, the Alabama
was one of the most successful raiders in history. During the 22 months it
sailed, her crew boarded 447 vessels, including 65 Union merchant vessels,
and took 2,000 prisoners, according to the CSS Alabama Association.
Adm. Raphael Semmes, the Alabama's captain, spent his last days practicing
law in Mobile, where a statue in his honor sits. It was Semmes who gave the
ship's flag to Capetown, South Africa, during a visit, said Robert Edington,
president of the Association of the Friends of the CSS Alabama. Negotiations
for its return from a museum are continuing.
The Museum of Mobile recently secured the return of another relic, however,
the ship's pennant which was plucked from the water following the battle.
The pennant was given to businessman John Low, chief officer aboard the
Alabama, who died in 1906. When Low's son, Henry Morris Low, moved to
Tasmania he took along the Alabama's pennant.
It remained in his family's care until Low's great-great grandson, Phillip
Sweetingham, brought it to Mobile. The museum is planning a ceremony to
accept the pennant on May 14.
The ship recovery project has been funded by public and private donors in
both the United States and France, including a $400,000 grant from the U.S.
Department of Defense.
The ship's cannons are being restored by the Navy lab at Charleston, S.C.
They will be taken to the Navy museum in Washington, D.C., and eventually
loaned to the Mobile museum.
In 2002, diving crews plan to excavate the Alabama's hull. Still to be
recovered are items from the lower decks of the ship, including the cruise
boxes, which hold the crew's personal possessions, and boxes of ship's
chinaware and copper cooking pots.
---
On the Net:
<http://www.history.navy.mil/branches/org12-1.htm >

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-----Original Message-----
From: Roger Launius [mailto:rlaunius@...]
Sent: Monday, April 02, 2001 5:46 AM
To: history@...
Subject: On-line Interview with Wernher von Braun from 1970


Greetings All:

The Archivo Difilm in Buenos Aires, Argentina has placed on-line a four
part interview about spaceflight with Wernher von Braun conducted in 1970.
Information about interview and links to it are available from
www.archivodifilm.com. Additional information is shown in the advertisement
below.

Sincerely,

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NASA Chief Historian
________________________

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In this first presentation it will be available for all the visitors of the
site fragments of an interview to the German engineer Wernher Von Braun in
1970.

-Who was Von Braun-

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engineers and a leading authority on space travel. His will to expand man's
knowledge through the exploration of space led to the development of the
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-----Original Message-----
From: H-Education Moderator, Allison Halpern
[mailto:ahalpern@...]
Sent: Monday, April 02, 2001 8:00 AM
To: H-EDUCATION@...
Subject: THIS WEEK IN EDUCATION HISTORY (April 1-7)


From: Penny L. Richards [mailto:turley2@...]
Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2001 3:20 PM
Subject: THIS WEEK IN EDUCATION HISTORY (April 1-7)


THIS WEEK IN EDUCATION HISTORY (April 1-7)

Booker Taliaferro Washington was born on 5 April 1856, in Franklin County,
Virginia, USA.  At his birth, he was a slave; by the end of his life (in
1915), he was the founder of Tuskegee Institute and one of the most
prominent men in America.  Washington is today best remembered for his
influential ideas about the education of African-Americans.

Some very useful academic websites on Booker T. Washington include

http://docsouth.unc.edu/washington/washing.html
an online full text version of Washington's autobiography, _Up from Slavery_
(1900)

http://www.historycoop.org/btw/index.html
the homepage for the Booker T. Washington Papers, at University of Illinois
Press--a website full of photographs, searchable texts, and other riches

This Week in Education History is an exclusive feature of H-Education
edited by
Penny L. Richards PhD
Research Scholar, UCLA Center for the Study of Women
Co-editor, H-Education and H-Disability
turley2@...

Suggestions and comments are always welcome.

can you tell me any thing about the plantations or whiskey stills in
the 1900 late 1800 in uniontown alabama

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*Rickwood Field is backdrop for nostalgic cigar campaign
http://www.al.com/news/birmingham/?Apr2001/3-e419694b.html
Birmingham News 3 April 2001

*Council seeks $50,000 to study maritime forest [Orange Beach]
http://www.al.com/news/mobile/?Apr2001/3-a431082a.html
Mobile Register 3 April 2001

*1867 April 1- African Americans vote in a municipal election in Tuscumbia,
         Alabama.  Military officials set aside the election pending
         clarification on electoral procedures.
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*Interesting things that happened April 2nd:

Birthdays on this date:

   In 1948 Emmylou Harris (in Alabama), singer

Events worth noting:

   In 1866 Pres. Andrew Johnson declares an end to the war in Alabama,
           Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, NC, SC,
Tennessee
           and Virginia.

    In 1986 George Corley Wallace announces retirement plans.

Hi, Mike...yes, I saw it and thought the filmmakers did a good job covering
all the competing agendas involved in the whole affair...quite a story,
isn't it?? I found the information about the defense attorney from New
York--his name escapes me at the moment---interesting...a real culture clash
for him!...some cast of characters in this tale...I guess Judge Horton, the
sheriff and Clarence Norris--one of the 9 Scottsboro boys--come off
best....aj wright // ajwright@...

-----Original Message-----
From: michael fitzgerald [mailto:fitz@...]
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 11:37 AM
To: alabamahistory@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [alabamahistory] Scottsboro documentary


Dear Alabama History list,

Anybody else see the PBS documentary on Scottsboro which aired in various
places around the country last night?  Just curious if anybody on the list
had anything to say about it.

Thanks,

Mike Fitzgerald
fitz@...



An archive of messages for this list since September 1998 can be viewed at
http://www.yahoogroups.com/archive/alabamahistory

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Yeah, to follow up on the original comment, I thought it was pretty good
too.  I thought it did a reasonably good job of not demonizing white
Alabamians in circumstances that in retrospect seem pretty awful, the
innocence of the accused men being relatively clear.  The resentment of the
lawyer Leibowitz as a Yankee left-wing outsider is well conveyed.  I
thought the tone, overall, was quite even handed.

The authors did leave out the whole struggle for control of the defense
effort between the NAACP and the Communist-led International Labor Defense,
which as I recall was a major theme of Dan Carter's fine book Scottsboro.
Well, no documentary can ever cover everything, I suppose.

I recommend that folks get a look at the film if they can.

Thanks, Mike Fitzgerald, fitz@...


At 03:27 PM 4/3/01 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi, Mike...yes, I saw it and thought the filmmakers did a good job covering
>all the competing agendas involved in the whole affair...quite a story,
>isn't it?? I found the information about the defense attorney from New
>York--his name escapes me at the moment---interesting...a real culture clash
>for him!...some cast of characters in this tale...I guess Judge Horton, the
>sheriff and Clarence Norris--one of the 9 Scottsboro boys--come off
>best....aj wright // ajwright@...
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: michael fitzgerald [mailto:fitz@...]
>Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 11:37 AM
>To: alabamahistory@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: Re: [alabamahistory] Scottsboro documentary
>
>
>Dear Alabama History list,
>
>Anybody else see the PBS documentary on Scottsboro which aired in various
>places around the country last night?  Just curious if anybody on the list
>had anything to say about it.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Mike Fitzgerald
>fitz@...
>
>
>
>An archive of messages for this list since September 1998 can be viewed at
>http://www.yahoogroups.com/archive/alabamahistory
>
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>
>
>
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>
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>
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>

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its amazining online riches...aj wright // ajwright@...


The Library of Congress National Digital Library Program announces the
release of the online collection, "Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives
from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938, at the American Memory Web
site at: <http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/>

"Born in Slavery" is a joint presentation of the Manuscript and Prints
and Photographs Divisions of the Library of Congress.  More than 2,300
first-person accounts of slavery comprising over 9,500 page images with
searcheable text, bibliographic records and 500 black-and-white
photographs of former slaves are now available.  More than 200
photographs are included from the Prints and Photographs Division that
are now made available to the public for the first time.  The
photographs of former slaves are linked to their corresponding
narratives.

The Federal Writers' Project (FWP) originally made no plans for
collecting slave autobiographies and reminiscences.  Interviews with
former slaves were undertaken spontaneously after the inception of the
FWP and were included among the activities of several Southern Writers'
Projects for almost a year before these isolated efforts were
transformed into a concerted regional project, coordinated by the
national headquarters of the FWP in Washington, D.C.  On April 1, 1937,
the collection of slave narratives formally began with the dispatch of
instructions to all Southern and border states directing their Writers'
Project workers to the task of interviewing former slaves.  Today, the
Slave Narrative Collection provides a unique and virtually unsurpassed
collective portrait of a historical population.

This online collection features an extensive introductory essay by
Norman R. Yetman of the University of Kansas which includes information
about the interviewers, the people interviewed, and the processes of
collection and compilation, as well as a wealth of fascinating stories
and candid portraits of former slaves.  The digitization of the
collection was made possible by a major gift from the Citigroup
Foundation.

Please direct any questions to ndlpcoll@...