Slavery; Slaves; Child rearing; Antislavery movements; Southern States -- Identity; Plantation life; Gerdine, Thomas Cobb; Gerdine, William Louis Crawford, d. 1878; Marriage; Travel;
Roxana writes of the raising of Tom Cobb Gerdine and southern children in general; her worries about bringing a slave north to visit with her because of their father's abolitionist views; talking off of her mourning (probably for her brother, Titus...
A concert of Southern African American "antebellum musical traditions" held in New York City's Central Park at the height of the Civil Rights era, in the summer of 1965. Produced by Joseph Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival in cooperation with...
Mississippi -- Race relations; Mississippi -- Social life and customs; Silver, James W. (James Wesley), 1907-1988
An interview with James Silver, in which he discusses his perception of the shifting social climate in Mississippi, his reasons for staying in the state, and his admiration for African Americans who live there despite persecution
A Pennsylvania insurance agent claims to have loaned James Meredith money, presumably for school expenses, then became angry when Meredith admitted on "Meet the Press" that he had recently bought his wife a new car