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21	Guardians of Historical Knowledge: Textbook Politics, Conservative Activism, and School Reform in Mississippi, 1928-1982 Johnson, Kevin Boland 17 May 2014 (has links) This project examines the role cultural transmission of historical myths plays in power relationships and identity formation through a study of the Mississippi textbook regulatory agency and various civic organizations that shaped education policy in addition to textbook content. A study of massive resistance to integration, my project focuses on the anticommunism and conservative ideology of grassroots segregationists. Civic-patriotic societies such as the Daughters of the American Revolution, the American Legion, and Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation formed as the major alliance affecting the state’s education system in the post-World War II era. Once the state department of education centralized its services in the late 1930s and early 1940s, civic club reformers guarded against integrationist and multicultural content found in textbooks, deeming both as subversive and communistic. From the early 1950s through the 1970s, Mississippi’s ardent segregationists and anticommunists shaped education policy by effective statelevel lobbying and grassroots activism. I demonstrate that the civic clubs had more influence in the state legislature than did the upstart Citizens’ Council movement. In addition, I show that once social studies standards emphasizing God, country, and Protestant Christianity became codified in state education policy, it became ever more difficult for other reformers, namely James W. Loewen and Charles Sallis, to dislodge and alter those standards. Through numerous legal cases, DAR and Farm Bureau ephemera, and state superintendent of education files, this work argues that the civic clubs played an integral role in defense of white supremacy—a role that has been underemphasized in the existing literature on massive resistance. conservatism white supremacy education segregation integration curriculum civic clubs DAR Farm Bureau Walter Sillers Boswell Stevens centralization textbooks reform massive resistance southern history standards
22	Fatherhood of God; Brotherhood of Man: Prince Hall Affiliated Freemasonry, Manhood, and Community Building in the Jim Crow South Lanois, Derrick 10 May 2014 (has links) The dissertation examines African American Freemasons throughout the South during the Jim Crow era. The secret nature of Prince Hall Affiliated Freemasonry (PHA) has hidden the contribution and activism of the organization and its members. I argue the organization is part of a web of networks that fought for civil and human rights for African Americans. Through PHA, members are cultivated into leaders, activists, businessmen; over the years, the members have created an initiatic identity that connected them to the African American community and humanity. The significance of my study is that I analyze PHA through a womanist lens and argue the organization has a diarchal gender relationship that allows women and men to take on leadership and activist roles that differed from the normative gender relationship of their time. Prince Hall Affiliated Freemasonry African American Freemasonry Black Manhood Womanism African American Fraternalism African American Southern History 20th Century African American History Jim Crow Human Rights African American Urban History
23	School Spirit or School Hate: The Confederate Battle Flag, Texas High Schools, and Memory, 1953-2002 Dirickson, Perry 12 1900 (has links) The debate over the display of the Confederate battle flag in public places throughout the South focus on the flag's display by state governments such South Carolina and Mississippi. The state of Texas is rarely placed in this debate, and neither has the debate adequately explore the role of high schools' use of Confederate symbols. Schools represent the community and serve as a symbol of its values. A school represented by Confederate symbols can communicate a message of intolerance to a rival community or opposing school during sports contests. Within the community, conflict arose when an opposition group to the symbols formed and asked for the symbols' removal in favor of symbols that were seen more acceptable by outside observers. Many times, an outside party needed to step in to resolve the conflict. In Texas, the conflict between those in favor and those oppose centered on the Confederate battle flag, and the memory each side associated with the flag. Anglos saw the flag as their school spirit. African Americans saw hatred. Flags -- Confederate States of America. Symbolism in politics -- Texas. Political culture -- Texas -- History. US history education Texas Southern history
24	Beyond "white supremacy:" white reactions to The Clansman and The Birth of a nation in New South North Carolina and Georgia / 「白人至上主義」の向こう側 : ノースカロライナ州及びジョージア州における劇『クランズマン(1905)』と『國民の創生(1915)』に対する南部白人たちの評価 / ハクジンシジョウシュギノムコウガワ : ノースカロライナシュウオヨビジョージアシュウニオケルゲキクランズマン 1905 トコクミンノソウセイ 1915 ニタイスルナンブハクジンタチノヒョウカ / 白人至上主義の向こう側 : ノースカロライナ州及びジョージア州における劇クランズマン1905と國民の創生1915に対する南部白人たちの評価三島(原) 恵実子, 三島恵実子, 原恵実子, Emiko Mishima Hara 07 March 2019 (has links) 昨今「白人至上主義」という単語が多用されているが、その定義は不明確なままである。なぜならば、たとえ人々の「白人至上主義」への認識に多少の差異があったとしても、結果がほぼ変わらないという見解が一般的であるからである。しかしながら本研究は、「白人至上主義」とは時代、場所、そして歴史的・社会的背景によって変容するものであると定義付けた。またある特定の「白人至上主義」を強調した演劇『クランズマン』、後の映画『國民の創生』、に対する南部白人の評価を分析することで、その概念を最も享受したであろう彼らが如何にその言葉の意味を定義し、またどのように保持し習慣づけていったのかを解明しようと試みたものである。 / This dissertation hypothesizes that white supremacy is a flexible ideology that changes depending on the location, the period, and historical as well as social conditions in which it is promoted. By examining and comparing the differences between the responses of white North Carolinians and white Georgians towards The Clansman in 1905 and The Birth of a Nation in 1915, this dissertation argues that even though we assume that Radical white supremacy seems to have covered the entire South during the Jim Crow era, and images and stories of supposed “black beast rapists” obscured social differences within the white group, there were a range of variable and sometimes competing ideologies among white supremacists. / 博士(アメリカ研究) / Doctor of Philosophy in American Studies / 同志社大学 / Doshisha University 白人至上主義南部史ホワイトネス・スタディーズ國民の創生クランズマンジョージア州ノースカロライナ州アトランタ人種暴動ウィルミントン人種暴動クー・クラックス・クラン人種アフリカ系アメリカ人ジム・クロウ融合政治ポピュリズム White Supreamcy Southern History Whiteness Studies The Birth of a Nation The Clansman Thomas Dixon Jr. Gerogia North Carolina Atlanta Race Riot Wilmington Race Riot Ku Klux Klan Race African American Jim Crow Fusion Governement Populism
25	Relationships of Reform: Frances MacGregor Ingram, Immigrants, and Progressivism in Louisville, Kentucky, 1900-1940 Laura Eileen Criss Bergstrom (13144761) 24 July 2022 (has links) <p>This dissertation focuses on the life of Frances MacGregor Ingram, a progressive reformer in Louisville, Kentucky. It follows Ingram’s career in social work at the Neighborhood House settlement and the Progressive reform movements in which she held leadership positions from 1905 to 1939. This project concentrates on Ingram’s involvement in reform movements pertaining to tenement housing, garbage collection management, dance hall regulation, juvenile delinquency, mental hygiene institutions, probation, wholesome recreation, child welfare, child labor, women’s working conditions, unemployment, and Great Depression relief.</p> <p><br></p> <p>Most Progressive Era scholarship concentrates on northern cities and reformers, such as Jane Addams at Hull House. But much of the literature overlooks southern contributions to the settlement house movement and progressive reform as a whole. This dissertation serves three purposes. First it helps fill the gap in scholarship on southern progressivism. Reformers in the urban South were not limited to charity work and prohibition. They engaged in complex and dynamic social reforms. Incredibly diverse in scope, Kentucky’s reform history should be understood in the context of southern society and politics, which impacted which progressive reforms were successful and which were not.</p> <p> </p> <p>Second, it builds on other women’s reform scholars by expanding previous conceptions of the Progressive Era to include the 1930s. By doing so, it provides a better understanding of women’s reform activism. Third, this dissertation provides a more balanced approach by emphasizing the alliances Ingram formed with immigrant communities. With a few exceptions, settlement literature primarily focuses on the movement leaders. Unlike some settlements, Neighborhood House Americanization programs via clubs, recreation, and citizenship classes were negotiated between the settlement and its neighbors. Through the lens of Ingram’s urban reform experience in Kentucky, this dissertation uses gender, class, race, ethnicity, and region to unpack the complicated relationships between reformers like Ingram, working-class immigrants, and male political officials. </p> Gender history Progressivism Progressive Reform Louisville, Kentucky Kentucky Settlement House Movement Child Labor Movement Child Welfare Movement Playground Movement Wholesome Recreation Movement Great Flood of 1937 Frances Ingram Probation Movement Dance Halls Tenement Housing Immigration Southern History Mental Hygiene Neighborhood House Syrian Immigrants Jewish Immigrants Louisville Educational Alliance Presbyterian Colored Missions Plymouth Settlement Cabbage Patch Settlement Wesley House West End Settlement Louisville Tenement House Commission Kentucky Consumers' League Kentucky Child Labor Association Louisville Fresh Air Home Frances MacGregor Ingram

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