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Buffalo City Directory
Historical papers are prefixed to several issues.
The Southern Fault Line
"The white South has always been of two minds on the desirability of democracy. Throughout U.S. history some white Southerners were vigorous proponents of the American democratic project. Others thought that participation in governing was more of a privilege granted only to those who proved themselves worthy through education and wealth. Blacks, treated as chattel property, were at first omitted from the discussion, but when emancipated joined the pro-democracy side of the debate. For most of Southern history, the division was geographic-upland small farmers inhabiting the Appalachian regions supporting the democratic project and the lowland planters and slaveholders opposing it. It reflecte...
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My Father and Atticus Finch
My Father and Atticus Finch is the true story of Foster Beck, the author's late father, whose courageous defense of a black man accused of raping a white woman in 1930s Alabama foreshadowed the trial at the heart of Harper Lee's classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird. After repeatedly being told that his father's case "might have" inspired Ms. Lee, author Beck, now a lawyer himself, located the trial transcript and multiple newspaper articles and here reconstructs his father's role in State of Alabama v. Charles White, Alias. On the day of the arrest, the local newspaper reported, under a page-one headline, that "a wandering negro fortune teller giving the name Charles White" had "volunteered a...
The Georgia Review
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Army Directory
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