On January 3, 2011, Faith Holsaert, co-editor of the new book Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC, was a guest on WUNC’s radio program The State […]
Category: black studies
The College Bowl Color Line by Charles H. Martin
‘Tis the season, for Christmas presents, holiday cheer, New Year’s resolutions—and college football’s never-ending parade of bowl games (35 in all this year)! When I began the research for […]
Ms. on Hands on the Freedom Plow
Jillian Weinberger reviews Hands on the Freedom Plow for Ms. Magazine’s blog. “Most of the narratives in this invaluable collection proudly note that while an element of gender bias certainly […]
AARP The Magazine reviews Hands on the Freedom Plow
The online version of AARP The Magazine just published a review of Hands on the Freedom Plow. “With the exception of Rosa Parks, Coretta Scott King, and Fannie Lou Hamer, […]
Washington Post’s The Root reviews Hands on the Freedom Plow
On November 9, 2010, The Root published Charles Cobb’s review of Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC. “Women are almost invisible in civil rights storytelling, and […]
Through a Glass Darkly: Reflections on a Troubled Past by Claude A. Clegg III
In deciding to write a book on the history of my hometown (Salisbury, NC), I became keenly interested in family history. As a historian, I am perhaps naturally fascinated with […]
Sacred Steel at the AFS Annual Meeting by Robert Stone
Sacred steel guitarist Aubrey Ghent will perform his soulful music at the American Folklore Society annual meeting in Nashville, Wednesday, October 13, at 8:00 pm. Aubrey is a master of […]
Hands on the Freedom Plow now available
This week we received finished copies of Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC. The editors are participating on panels at the ASALH meeting this weekend in […]
“Beauty Shop Politics” wins ABWH award
Beauty Shop Politics: African American Women’s Activism in the Beauty Industry by Tiffany Gill was awarded the Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Book Award for best publication from the Association of Black […]
CNN to interview Hands on the Freedom Plow contributor
“I looked down at the speedometer. It hovered at 115. My 1957 Packard hunkered down and propelled the three of us down Mississippi Interstate 55. As I glanced to the […]
Advance copies of “Troubled Ground”
Bound advance proofs just arrived for Claude A. Clegg’s forthcoming book Troubled Ground: A Tale of Murder, Lynching, and Reckoning in the New South. Reviews editors will begin receiving their advances […]
SNCC Way!
In October 2010 we are publishing Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC, in which fifty-two women—northern and southern, young and old, urban and rural, black, […]