Remembering Americus Georgia Essays On Southern Life

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Remembering Americus Georgia

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Author : Alan Anderson
language : en
Publisher: American Chronicles
Release Date : 2006

Remembering Americus Georgia written by Alan Anderson and has been published by American Chronicles this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with History categories.

The city of Americus--seat of Sumter County, Georgia--has a rich past that stretches back hundreds of years. The people and events that shaped Americus are unique and compelling, and the history of the area shares many parallels with the larger history of the South. From the pioneer era in southern Georgia to the present day, the triumphs and toils of Sumter County are often mirrored in the story of the South. Like many Southern communities, Americus features a fascinating heritage, the details of which can surprise even longtime residents. The area's history overflows with an intriguing cast of characters whose exploits have helped to enrich the colorful story of Americus. This portion of southern Georgia has also played host to more than its fair share of famous personalities, from C.S.A. President Jefferson Davis at the end of the Civil War to Yasser Arafat, who visited President Jimmy Carter at Sumter County home. Remembering Americus, Georgia: Essays on Southern Life, by local resident and historian Alan Anderson, is a delightful compilation of historical vignettes drawn from Anderson's work for the Times-Recorder newspaper in Americus. Anderson's insightful and entertaining writings offer a glimpse into the history of Americus and Sumter County, and reveal how the area's past is reflected in the history of the South.

The Class Of 65

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Author : Jim Auchmutey
language : en
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Release Date : 2015-03-31

The Class Of 65 written by Jim Auchmutey and has been published by PublicAffairs this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-31 with Social Science categories.

In the midst of racial strife, one young man showed courage and empathy. It took forty years for the others to join him Being a student at Americus High School was the worst experience of Greg Wittkamper's life. Greg came from a nearby Christian commune, Koinonia, whose members devoutly and publicly supported racial equality. When he refused to insult and attack his school's first black students in 1964, Greg was mistreated as badly as they were: harassed and bullied and beaten. In the summer after his senior year, as racial strife in Americus -- and the nation -- reached its peak, Greg left Georgia. Forty-one years later, a dozen former classmates wrote letters to Greg, asking his forgiveness and inviting him to return for a class reunion. Their words opened a vein of painful memory and unresolved emotion, and set him on a journey that would prove healing and saddening. The Class of '65 is more than a heartbreaking story from the segregated South. It is also about four of Greg's classmates -- David Morgan, Joseph Logan, Deanie Dudley, and Celia Harvey -- who came to reconsider the attitudes they grew up with. How did they change? Why, half a lifetime later, did reaching out to the most despised boy in school matter to them? This noble book reminds us that while ordinary people may acquiesce to oppression, we all have the capacity to alter our outlook and redeem ourselves.

The Listener S Voice

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Author : Elena Razlogova
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2012-10-15

The Listener S Voice written by Elena Razlogova and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-15 with History categories.

During the Jazz Age and Great Depression, radio broadcasters did not conjure their listening public with a throw of a switch; the public had a hand in its own making. The Listener's Voice describes how a diverse array of Americans—boxing fans, radio amateurs, down-and-out laborers, small-town housewives, black government clerks, and Mexican farmers—participated in the formation of American radio, its genres, and its operations. Before the advent of sophisticated marketing research, radio producers largely relied on listeners' phone calls, telegrams, and letters to understand their audiences. Mining this rich archive, historian Elena Razlogova meticulously recreates the world of fans who undermined centralized broadcasting at each creative turn in radio history. Radio outlaws, from the earliest squatter stations and radio tube bootleggers to postwar "payola-hungry" rhythm and blues DJs, provided a crucial source of innovation for the medium. Engineers bent patent regulations. Network writers negotiated with devotees. Program managers invited high school students to spin records. Taken together, these and other practices embodied a participatory ethic that listeners articulated when they confronted national corporate networks and the formulaic ratings system that developed. Using radio as a lens to examine a moral economy that Americans have imagined for their nation, The Listener's Voice demonstrates that tenets of cooperation and reciprocity embedded in today's free software, open access, and filesharing activities apply to earlier instances of cultural production in American history, especially at times when new media have emerged.

Audacious Agitation

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Author : Vincent D. Willis
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2021-08

Audacious Agitation written by Vincent D. Willis and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08 with History categories.

American Book Publishing Record

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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005

American Book Publishing Record written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with American literature categories.

Kyzer S Promise

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Author : Jon Howard Hall
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2014-08-14

Kyzer S Promise written by Jon Howard Hall and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-14 with Fiction categories.

In 1869, following the death of Dellanna and Ethan, Kyzer grieved over the loss of his wife and little black baby. Would things have been any better for him if he had known the truth? Perhaps, he thought. He had fulfilled his promise to Dellanna. He shared the truth with their daughter about her possible genetic condition. One drop, just one drop of his blood, also labeled her as a Negro. It was hard for Kyzer to realize his mother Delilah was once a slave girl who gave him away at birth. He thought he understood the reasons when she tried to explain herself. She was scared. She was so young. She was alone without her dearly departed mother, Mama Rose. Kyzer and Delilah were together again after nearly thirty years, and now he knew all about himself.

Paternalism In A Southern City

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Author : Edward J. Cashin
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2012-02-01

Paternalism In A Southern City written by Edward J. Cashin and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-01 with History categories.

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 and wives, elites and the masses, and industrialists and workers. How Augusta's millworkers, homemakers, and others resisted, exploited, or endured the constraints of paternalism reveals the complex interplay between race, class, and gender. One essay looks at the subordinating effects of paternalism on women in the Old South--slave, free black, and white--and the coping strategies available to each group. Another focuses on the Knights of Labor union in Augusta. With their trappings of chivalry, the Knights are viewed as a response by Augusta's white male millworkers to the emasculating "maternalism" to which they were subjected by their own wives and daughters and those of mill owners and managers. Millworkers are also the topic of a study of mission work in their communities, a study that gauges the extent to which religious outreach by elites was a means of social control rather than an outpouring of genuine concern for worker welfare. Other essays discuss Augusta's "aristocracy of color," who had to endure the same effronteries of segregation as the city's poorest blacks; the role of interracial cooperation in the founding of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church as a denomination, and of Augusta's historic Trinity CME Church; and William Jefferson White, an African American minister, newspaper editor, and founder of Morehouse College. The varied and creative responses to paternalism discussed here open new ways to view relationships based on power and negotiated between men and women, blacks and whites, and the prosperous and the poor.

Roots In The Cotton Patch

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Author : Kirk Lyman-Barner
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2014-07-11

Roots In The Cotton Patch written by Kirk Lyman-Barner and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-11 with Religion categories.

In honor of what would have been Clarence Jordan's one hundredth birthday and the seventieth anniversary of Koinonia Farm, the first Clarence Jordan Symposium convened in historic Sumter County, Georgia, in 2012, gathering theologians, historians, actors, and activists in civil rights, housing, agriculture, and fair-trade businesses to celebrate a remarkable individual and his continuing influence. Clarence Jordan (1912-1969), a farmer and New Testament Greek scholar, was the author of the Cotton Patch versions of the New Testament and the founder of Koinonia Farm, a small but influential religious community in southwest Georgia. Roots in the Cotton Patch, Volume 1 contains Symposium presentations addressing Clarence's influence as a storyteller and contextual preacher and prophet, his pacifist witness in a violent and segregated South, and the contemporary meaning of his life's work in Christian community. Uniting these powerful essays is the obvious impact Jordan's life has had on so many. His life and work continue to inspire a new generation of activists, seminary students, and people in search of the meaning of Christian community.

Slave Testimony

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Author : John W. Blassingame
language : en
Publisher: LSU Press
Release Date : 1977-06-01

Slave Testimony written by John W. Blassingame and has been published by LSU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977-06-01 with Literary Criticism categories.

“A magisterial and landmark work, one that merits wide and thoughtful readership not only by historians, but, more important, by those of us who count on historians to tell us truly about our past.”—New York Times “A testament to the resilience of the black spirit, faced with a primitive and largely conscienceless regime.”—Bertram Wyatt-Brown, South Atlantic Quarterly “This volume does much more than merely present a rich collection of judiciously selected and skillfully edited sources of the history of slavery; in the process it reveals a host of large-as-life slaves and ex-slaves: Kale, the precocious eleven-year-old Mende of the Amistad rebels, who quickly learned to write eloquent and polished English; Harry McMillan of Beaufort, South Carolina, who talked frankly of black love and marriage; Charlotte Burris of Kentucky, so ‘afflicted’ that her husband was permitted to buy her for only $25.00—‘as much as I was worth,’ she self-effacingly said; and many more. This illumination of the slave as an individual is really what the book is all about.”—Journal of Southern History “A mammoth presentation of two centuries of slave recollections . . . extraordinary firsthand narratives that should become the premier reference volume on the slave experience for years to come.”—Columbia (SC) State “The largest collection of annotated and authenticated accounts of slaves ever published in one volume. . . . So valuable a compilation is this study that its real worth cannot be measured for some time to come.”—Richmond News Leader

Early Georgia Magazines

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Author : Bertram Holland Flanders
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2010-05-01

Early Georgia Magazines written by Bertram Holland Flanders and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-01 with History categories.

First published in 1944, this is a detailed survey of twenty-four distinguished periodicals published in antebellum Georgia. Flanders shows that literary activity was generally confined to middle Georgia and often concentrated on themes of religion and morality, early American life, and European adventures. An extensive bibliography and three appendices give a comprehensive list of magazines published during the time, including dates, places of publication, and names of editors and publishers. More than nine hundred footnotes further elaborate on the analysis of backgrounds, local historical events, and information on contributors.