Tag Archives: Civil Rights

The Sam Hose case, 1899

Posted on October 4, 2024 by Doug Cumming

In a 1963 issue of the Atlantic Monthly, I read an account by Ralph McGill, who was editor and publisher of the Atlanta Constitution when I was growing up in Atlanta, of his interview with the distinguished black scholar W.E.B. … Continue reading →

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Daddy’s history. I follow in his footsteps (with a map)

Posted on May 22, 2024 by Doug Cumming

There’s this memory I have, but it couldn’t have been mine because this is before I was born. It’s 1946, thereabouts. The memory is of a college campus high in the Cumberlands of Tennessee, misty Gothic buildings, professors in loose … Continue reading →

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Review of ‘Deep South Dispatches’

Posted on October 9, 2019 by Doug Cumming

Herbers, John N., with Anne Farris Rosen. Deep South Dispatch: Memoir of a Civil Rights Journalist.Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2018. 260 pp. $28. Look up John N. Herbers’s byline in the New York Times Historical database and you find … Continue reading →

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