Reflections on Civil Rights History in the South:
The Intersections of Identity, Place, Gender, and Race in a Contemporary Framework
Our Projects:
Civil Rights: A Brief History by Alejandra Galvan
Photo Essay by Libby Guss
Power of Place by Trisha Walker
Tougaloo College: The Heart of the Movement by Quentina Dunbar
Ella Baker and the Value of Women's Work by Quentina Dunbar
Race and Identity in Contemporary Visual Art by Nicole Soley
Racism Today by Sara Baranczyk
Selected Bibliography and Sources:
Andrews, T. Kenneth. “The Impacts of Social Movements on the Political Process: The Civil Rights Movement and Black Electoral Politics in Mississippi.” American Sociological Review 62 (October 1997): 800-819. http://www.unc.edu/~kta1/Andrews_ASR97.pdf.
Asch, Chris Myers. The Senator and the Sharecropper: The Freedom Struggles of James O. Eastland and Fannie Lou Hamer. New York: The New Press, 2008.
Cobb, James. The Most Southern Place on Earth: The Mississippi Delta and the Roots of Southern Identity. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.
Dittmer, John. Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi. Champaign, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 1994.
Holland, Endesha Ida Mae. From the Mississippi Delta: A Memoir. New York: Lawrence Hill Books, 1996.
Jordan, June, and Albert Williams. Fannie Lou Hamer. New York: Crowell, 1972.
Moye, Todd. Let the People Decide: Black Freedom and White Resistance Movements in Sunflower County, Mississippi, 1945-1986. The University of North Carolina Press, 2004
Moody, Anne. Coming of Age in Mississippi. New York: Dial Press, 1968.
O'Brien, M. J. We Shall Not Be Moved: The Jackson Woolworth's Sit-In and the Movement It Inspired. Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 2013.
Rubin, Susan Goldman. Freedom Summer: The 1964 Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi. New York: Holiday House. 2014.
Veterans of the Civil Rights Movement. Accessed April 16, 2015. http://www.crmvet.org.
Left to Right: Nicole Soley, Sara Baranczyk, Quentina Dunbar, Alejandra Galvan, Jill Cooley, Libby Guss, Trisha Walker
Sara is a freshman at Minnesota State University, Mankato. She is from Saint Paul, Minnesota, double majoring in Physics Education and Communication Arts and Literature with a hope of becoming licensed to teach both subjects. She is in the Honors Program.
Quentina is a sophomore at Minnesota State University, Mankato. She is a Gender and Women's Studies major with a minor in Nonprofit Leadership. She was recently admitted to the Honors Program here at MSU. During the school year she works in the Multicultural Center in the Cenntenial Student Union. She will be studying abroad during the 2015-2016 school year.
Libby is a freshman Honor student at MSU. She is majoring in Mass Media. Libby enjoys photography. She is also a master ice cream scooper at Mom and Pop's ice cream shop in Mankato.
Alejandra is a sophomore majoring in History with a minor and Biology. She is the recent recipient of two esteemed scholarships from the Minnesota State University, Mankato History Department.
Trisha is a sophomore from Kenyon, Minnesota. She is majoring in Anthropology with minors in Biology and History. She is interested in Bioarcheology. She is in the Honors Program.
Nicole is an Art Education major at Minnesota State University, Mankato. She is minoring in Nonprofit Leadership. She spends her summers working at Camp Robindel teaching ceramics and cabin counseling. Nicole is also a printmaker. She is an Honors student and spends her school year working as a peer writing tutor in the Center for Academic Success.
Quentina
Dunbar
Sara
Baranczyk
Libby
Guss
Alejandra
Galvan
Trisha
Walker
Nicole
Soley
Angela Jill Cooley is Assistant Professor of History at Minnesota State University, Mankato. She teaches constitutional history and civil rights and researches how foodways reflect race relations in the American South.