GHS Publications that Explore Race in American History
“The Shot That Was Heard in Nearly Two Million Negro Homes”: The 1934 Murder of William Alexander Scott
THOMAS AIELLO
The Georgia Historical Quarterly
Vol. 100, No. 4 (2016), pp. 366-403 (38 pages)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/44651733
Ronald Reagan’s Use of Race in the 1976 and 1980 Presidential Elections
RICHARD PRIMUTH
The Georgia Historical Quarterly
Vol. 100, No. 1 (2016), pp. 36-66 (31 pages)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/43855884
Governor David B. Mitchell and the “Black Birds” Slave Smuggling Scandal
John D. Fair
The Georgia Historical Quarterly
Vol. 99, No. 4 (WINTER 2015), pp. 253-289 (37 pages)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/24636783
“You’re in the South Now, Brother”: The Atlanta Hawks and Race, 1968-1970
Thomas Aiello
The Georgia Historical Quarterly
Vol. 98, No. 3 (Fall 2014), pp. 155-191 (37 pages)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/44735543
Who Was the Real Gus Coggins?: Social Struggle and Criminal Mystery in Cherokee County, 1912–1927
Kenneth H. Wheeler and Jennifer Lee Cowart
The Georgia Historical Quarterly
Vol. 97, No. 4 (WINTER 2013), pp. 411-446 (36 pages)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/24636328
Not Another Little Rock: Massive Resistance, Desegregation, and the Athens White Business Establishment, 1960–61
Ashton G. Ellett
The Georgia Historical Quarterly
Vol. 97, No. 2 (SUMMER 2013), pp. 176-216 (41 pages)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/24636699
Racial Unrest and White Liberalism in Rural Georgia: Barrow and Oconee Counties in the Early 1920s
Mark Ellis
The Georgia Historical Quarterly
Vol. 97, No. 1 (SPRING 2013), pp. 29-60 (32 pages)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/24636304
The Calculus of Realignment: The Rise of Republicanism in Georgia, 1964-1992
Jason W. Gilliland
The Georgia Historical Quarterly
Vol. 96, No. 4 (WINTER 2012), pp. 413-452 (40 pages)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/43855869
Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park, African Americans in the Atlanta Campaign, and the Lost Cause
Angela D. Tooley
The Georgia Historical Quarterly
Vol. 96, No. 3 (FALL 2012), pp. 308-333 (26 pages)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/23622194
The Murder of William Wise: An Examination of Indentured Servitude, Anti-Irish Prejudice, and Crime in Early Georgia
Julie Anne Sweet
The Georgia Historical Quarterly
Vol. 96, No. 1 (SPRING 2012), pp. 1-23 (23 pages)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/23621697
“To Overawe the Indians and Give Confidence to the Whites:” Preparations for the Removal of the Cherokee Nation from Georgia
Sarah H. Hill
The Georgia Historical Quarterly
Vol. 95, No. 4 (WINTER 2011), pp. 465-497 (33 pages)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/23621655
Incendiary Negro: The Life and Times of the Honorable Jefferson Franklin Long
Ephraim Samuel Rosenbaum
The Georgia Historical Quarterly
Vol. 95, No. 4 (WINTER 2011), pp. 498-530 (33 pages)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/23621656
“A State of Violent Contrasts”: Lynching and the Competing Visions of White Supremacy in Georgia, 1949
https://www.jstor.org/stable/41304288
The Fight to Protect Race and Regional Identity within the General Federation of Women’s Clubs, 1895-1902
Mary Jane Smith
The Georgia Historical Quarterly
Vol. 94, No. 4 (WINTER 2010), pp. 479-513 (35 pages)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/41304225
Radicals Between the Hedges: The Origins of the New Left at the University of Georgia and the 1968 Sit-In
Christopher A. Huff
The Georgia Historical Quarterly
Vol. 94, No. 2 (Summer 2010), pp. 179-209 (31 pages)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/20788974
Hydrology and Residential Segregation in the Postwar South: An Environmental History of Atlanta, 1865-1895
Bartow Elmore
The Georgia Historical Quarterly
Vol. 94, No. 1 (Spring 2010), pp. 30-61 (32 pages)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/40585153
Charles Augustus Lafayette Lamar and the Movement to Reopen the African Slave Trade
Jim Jordan
The Georgia Historical Quarterly
Vol. 93, No. 3 (FALL 2009), pp. 247-290 (44 pages)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/27809120
Slave Women, Capital Crime, and Criminal Justice in Georgia
Glenn McNair
The Georgia Historical Quarterly
Vol. 93, No. 2 (Summer 2009), pp. 135-158 (24 pages)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/40585133
Religious Leaders in the Aftermath of Atlanta’s 1906 Race Riot
Harvey K. Newman and Glenda Crunk
The Georgia Historical Quarterly
Vol. 92, No. 4 (Winter 2008), pp. 460-485 (26 pages)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/40585087
Sovereign or Suzerain: Alexander McGillivray’s Argument for Creek Independence after the Treaty of Paris of 1783
Melissa A. Stock
The Georgia Historical Quarterly
Vol. 92, No. 2 (Summer 2008), pp. 149-176 (28 pages)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/40585053
Organized Labor along Savannah’s Waterfront: Mutual Cooperation among Black and White Longshoremen, 1865-1894
Monica Hunt
The Georgia Historical Quarterly
Vol. 92, No. 2 (Summer 2008), pp. 177-199 (23 pages)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/40585054
Self-Determination, Politics, and Gender on Georgia’s Black College Campuses, 1875-1900
Stephanie R. Wright
The Georgia Historical Quarterly
Vol. 92, No. 1 (Spring 2008), pp. 93-119 (27 pages)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/40585040
Georgia and the Conversation over Indian Removal
Michael Morris
The Georgia Historical Quarterly
Vol. 91, No. 4 (Winter 2007), pp. 403-423 (21 pages)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/40585021
Complex Relations: An African-American Attorney Navigates Jim Crow Atlanta
David Kenneth Pye
The Georgia Historical Quarterly
Vol. 91, No. 4 (Winter 2007), pp. 453-477 (25 pages)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/40585023
Whither Southern Liberalism in the Post-Civil Rights Era? The Southern Regional Council and its Peers, 1965-1972
Steven P. Miller
The Georgia Historical Quarterly
Vol. 90, No. 4 (Winter 2006), pp. 547-568 (22 pages)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/40584976
“Killing Them by the Wholesale”: A Lynching Rampage in South Georgia
Christopher C. Meyers
The Georgia Historical Quarterly
Vol. 90, No. 2 (SUMMER 2006), pp. 214-235 (22 pages)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/40584910
Post-Civil War Violence in Augusta, Georgia
Russell K. Brown
The Georgia Historical Quarterly
Vol. 90, No. 2 (SUMMER 2006), pp. 196-213 (18 pages)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/40584909
The Rhetoric of Hate: The Demosthenian Literary Society and its Opposition to the Desegregation of the University of Georgia, 1950-1964
Robert A. Pratt
The Georgia Historical Quarterly
Vol. 90, No. 2 (SUMMER 2006), pp. 236-259 (24 pages)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/40584911
Sam Jones, Sam Hose, and the Theology of Racial Violence
Darren E. Grem
The Georgia Historical Quarterly
Vol. 90, No. 1 (SPRING 2006), pp. 35-61 (27 pages)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/40584885
Judge Fite’s Contempt: Race and the Rule of Law in Early Twentieth Century Georgia
John K. Larkins, Jr.
The Georgia Historical Quarterly
Vol. 90, No. 1 (SPRING 2006), pp. 62-95 (34 pages)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/40584886
The Making of a Black Political Boss: Henry A. Rucker, 1897-1904
Gregory Mixon
The Georgia Historical Quarterly
Vol. 89, No. 4 (WINTER 2005), pp. 485-504 (20 pages)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/40584862
The Politics of Industrialization and Interracialism in Sumter County, Georgia: Koinonia Farm in the 1950s
Charles S. O’Connor
The Georgia Historical Quarterly
Vol. 89, No. 4 (WINTER 2005), pp. 505-527 (23 pages)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/40584863
Practicing What We Preach: White Catholics and the Civil Rights Movement in Atlanta
Andrew S. Moore
The Georgia Historical Quarterly
Vol. 89, No. 3 (FALL 2005), pp. 334-367 (34 pages)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/40584843
Hugh M. Dorsey and “The Negro in Georgia”
Timothy J. Pitts
The Georgia Historical Quarterly
Vol. 89, No. 2 (SUMMER 2005), pp. 185-212 (28 pages)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/40584824
Emerging Gender Roles for Southeastern Indian Women: The Mary Musgrove Story Reconsidered
Michael Morris
The Georgia Historical Quarterly
Vol. 89, No. 1 (SPRING 2005), pp. 1-24 (24 pages)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/40584806
Black Medical Pioneers in Savannah, 1892-1909: Cornelius McKane and Alice Woodby McKane
Charles J. Elmore
The Georgia Historical Quarterly
Vol. 88, No. 2 (Summer 2004), pp. 179-196 (18 pages)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/40584737
Mass Legal Executions in Georgia
Vance McLaughlin and Paul H. Blackman
The Georgia Historical Quarterly
Vol. 88, No. 1 (SPRING 2004), pp. 66-84 (19 pages)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/40584706
Three Who Cared: Beulah Rucker, E. E. Butler, and Ulysses Byas—Twentieth-Century Trailblazers in Education for African Americans in Gainesville, Georgia
Winfred E. Pitts
The Georgia Historical Quarterly
Vol. 87, No. 2 (Summer 2003), pp. 245-274 (30 pages)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/40584671
Great Indignation: A Study of Racial Violence in Thomas County, Georgia, 1930
Scott McAleer
The Georgia Historical Quarterly
Vol. 87, No. 1 (SPRING 2003), pp. 48-87 (40 pages)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/40584622
A Black Minister Befriends the “Unquestioned Father of Civil Rights”: Henry McNeal Turner, Charles Sumner, and the African-American Quest for Freedom
Stephen W. Angell
The Georgia Historical Quarterly
Vol. 85, No. 1 (SPRING 2001), pp. 27-58 (32 pages)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/40584374
The Surveillance of Georgia Writer and Civil Rights Activist Lillian Smith: Another Story from the Federal Bureau of Investigation
Will Brantley
The Georgia Historical Quarterly
Vol. 85, No. 1 (SPRING 2001), pp. 59-82 (24 pages)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/40584375
The Long and Winding Road: School Desegregation in Columbus, Georgia, 1963-1997
Virginia E. Causey
The Georgia Historical Quarterly
Vol. 85, No. 3 (FALL 2001), pp. 398-434 (37 pages)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/40584445
A Nail in the Coffin of Racism: The Story of the Columbians
Robert Pierce Patrick, Jr.
The Georgia Historical Quarterly
Vol. 85, No. 2 (SUMMER 2001), pp. 245-266 (22 pages)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/40584410
Freedom and Slavery in the Voice of the Negro: Historical Memory and African-American Identity, 1904-1907
Bethany Johnson
The Georgia Historical Quarterly
Vol. 84, No. 1 (SPRING 2000), pp. 29-71 (43 pages)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/40584226
W.E.B. Du Bois’s Southern Front: Georgia “Race Men” and the Niagara Movement, 1905-1907
Dominic J. Capeci, Jr. and Jack C. Knight
The Georgia Historical Quarterly
Vol. 83, No. 3 (FALL 1999), pp. 479-507 (29 pages)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/40584110
G-Men in Georgia: The FBI and the Segregationist Riot at the University of Georgia, 1961
Robert Cohen
The Georgia Historical Quarterly
Vol. 83, No. 3 (FALL 1999), pp. 508-538 (31 pages)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/40584111
Populism in Black Belt Georgia: Racial Dynamics in Taliaferro County Politics, 1890-1900
William F. Holmes
The Georgia Historical Quarterly
Vol. 83, No. 2 (SUMMER 1999), pp. 242-266 (25 pages)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/40584145
“Gardens of Education”: Beulah Rucker and African-American Culture in the Twentieth-Century Georgia Upcountry
Ann Short Chirhart
The Georgia Historical Quarterly
Vol. 82, No. 4, GEORGIA WOMEN: PERSPECTIVES ON CLASS, RACE, AND ETHNICITY (WINTER 1998), pp. 829-847 (19 pages)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/40583907
More Alluring at a Distance: Absentee Patriarchy and the Thomas Butler King Family
Stephen Berry
The Georgia Historical Quarterly
Vol. 81, No. 4 (WINTER 1997), pp. 863-896 (34 pages)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/40550187
“This Man Felker is a Man of Pretty Good Standing”: A Reconstruction Klansman in Walton County
Kathleen Gorman
The Georgia Historical Quarterly
Vol. 81, No. 4 (WINTER 1997), pp. 897-914 (18 pages)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/40550188
New Deal Public Housing, Urban Poverty, and Jim Crow: Techwood and University Homes in Atlanta
Frank Ruechel
The Georgia Historical Quarterly
Vol. 81, No. 4 (WINTER 1997), pp. 915-937 (23 pages)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/40550189
“Good Negro—Bad Negro”: The Dynamics of Race and Class in Atlanta During the Era of the 1906 Riot
Gregory Mixon
The Georgia Historical Quarterly
Vol. 81, No. 3 (FALL 1997), pp. 593-621 (29 pages)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/40583748
Race, Manhood, and Manpower: Mobilizing Rural Georgia for World War I
Gerald E. Shenk
The Georgia Historical Quarterly
Vol. 81, No. 3 (FALL 1997), pp. 622-662 (41 pages)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/40583749
Organizing Across the Color Line: The Knights of Labor and Black Recruitment Efforts in Small-Town Georgia
Matthew Hild
The Georgia Historical Quarterly
Vol. 81, No. 2, LABOR IN GEORGIA (SUMMER 1997), pp. 287-310 (24 pages)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/40583646
Charivari: Race, Honor, and Post Office Politics in Sharon, Georgia, 1890
WILLIAM F. HOLMES
The Georgia Historical Quarterly
Vol. 80, No. 4 (WINTER 1996), pp. 759-784 (26 pages)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/40583595
Racial Change and “Big-Time” College Football in Georgia: The Age of Segregation, 1892-1957
Charles H. Martin
The Georgia Historical Quarterly
Vol. 80, No. 3, HIGHER EDUCATION IN GEORGIA (FALL 1996), pp. 532-562 (31 pages)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/40583490
From Tokenism to Community Control: Political Symbolism in the Desegregation of Atlanta’s Public Schools, 1961-1973
Susan M. McGrath
The Georgia Historical Quarterly
Vol. 79, No. 4 (Winter 1995), pp. 842-872 (31 pages)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/40583339
A City Too Dignified to Hate: Civic Pride, Civil Rights, and Savannah in Comparative Perspective
Stephen Tuck
The Georgia Historical Quarterly
Vol. 79, No. 3 (Fall 1995), pp. 539-559 (21 pages)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/40583288
“The Way Out May Lead In”: The Albany Movement Beyond Martin Luther King, Jr.
Michael Chalfen
The Georgia Historical Quarterly
Vol. 79, No. 3 (Fall 1995), pp. 560-598 (39 pages)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/40583289
A King in Newcastle: Martin Luther King, Jr. and British Race Relations, 1967-1968
Brian Ward
The Georgia Historical Quarterly
Vol. 79, No. 3 (Fall 1995), pp. 599-632 (34 pages)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/40583290
“Uncle Billy” Sherman Comes To Town: The Free Winter of Black Savannah
William A. Byrne
The Georgia Historical Quarterly
Vol. 79, No. 1, GEORGIANS AT WAR, 1861-1865 (Spring 1995), pp. 91-116 (26 pages)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/40583184
