By Alan H. Stein & Gene B. Preuss (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) “Oral history” is a method of gathering and preserving historical information through recorded interviews with participants in past events and ways of life. It is both the oldest type of historical inquiry, predating the written word, and one of the most modern, initiated with tape recorders … [Read more...] about “Race, Poverty and Oral History” by Alan H. Stein & Gene B. Preuss (September-October 2006 Issue)
Civil Rights History
“Freedom Riders” by Raymond Arsenault (July-August 2006 P&R Issue)
By Raymond Arsenault (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice, published by Oxford University Press, is an extraordinary study, by Raymond Arsenault, the appropriately named John Hope Franklin Professor of Southern History at the Univ. of South Florida, St. Petersburg (rarsenau@stpt.usf.edu). The product … [Read more...] about “Freedom Riders” by Raymond Arsenault (July-August 2006 P&R Issue)
“Success and the Chicago Freedom Movement” by Mary Lou Finley (May-June 2006 Issue)
By Mary Lou Finley (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) Housing segregation still persists in Chicago, and by some measures poverty has even worsened in the 40 years since Martin Luther King, Jr. moved into a slum apartment on Chicago’s West Side in January 1966 as a profound statement of support for the poor. Yet to conclude that the movement was, as one … [Read more...] about “Success and the Chicago Freedom Movement” by Mary Lou Finley (May-June 2006 Issue)
“When Affirmative Action Was White” by Ira Katznelson (March-April 2006 P&R Issue)
By Ira Katznelson (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) Hurricane Katrina’s violent winds and waters tore away the shrouds that ordinarily mask the country’s racial pattern of poverty and neglect. Understandably, most commentators focused on the woeful federal response. Others, taking a longer view, yearned for a burst of activism patterned on the New Deal. … [Read more...] about “When Affirmative Action Was White” by Ira Katznelson (March-April 2006 P&R Issue)
“Truth and Reconciliation in Greensboro, North Carolina: A Paradigm for Social Transformation” by Signe Waller & Marty Nathan, MD (January-February 2006 P&R Issue)
By Signe Waller & Marty Nathan, MD (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) Race and class oppression form the backdrop of everyday reality in the United States. Popular culture is blind to the endemic and systemic nature of racism in our political and economic institutions. Mostly, we tell ourselves comforting stories about who we are and what we have done. Told most … [Read more...] about “Truth and Reconciliation in Greensboro, North Carolina: A Paradigm for Social Transformation” by Signe Waller & Marty Nathan, MD (January-February 2006 P&R Issue)
