These recordings of oral history, play songs, blues, spirituals, and stories were made in 1948 when Alan Lomax invited Vera Hall to come from her home in Livingston, Alabama, to New York City for a concert. Vera Hall's mother had been a slave, and...
States' rights (American politics); School integration -- United States
Editorial wondering whether the "integration decree" handed down by the Supreme Court after the Brown vs. Board of Education decision was a positive development, as it awakened a desire in many Southerners to defend their way of life against...