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Tag Archives: civil rights
Ebony Magazine During the Civil Rights Era
In 2008 Ebony magazine made available much of its archive, dating all the way back to 1959. The archive can be read here, and it offers a fascinating perspective on America during the past. Most magazines write from the normal perspective of the white community. Ebony, however, writes from the quite different lens of black America. This perspective is quite interesting from the viewpoint of the modern reader. Continue reading
Posted in Media, Other, Race
Tagged African-Americans, Blacks, civil rights, Ebony, magazines, past
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The Rise and Fall of the South Carolina Democratic Party
In my research on South Carolina’s 2010 gubernatorial election, I came upon a fascinating chart. The chart describes the number of Democrats and Republican in South Carolina’s State House of Representatives from the Civil War to the present day. The data offers a fascinating story of the Democratic Party in South Carolina, and the Deep South in general. Continue reading
Posted in Blacks, Democrats, Republicans, South Carolina
Tagged civil rights, Democrats, Politics, Race, Reconstruction, Republicans, South Carolina
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The Cold War and the Civil Rights Movement
In the past fifty years, the Civil Rights movement has changed America more than any other social movement. The efforts of Dr. Martin Luther King and others profoundly altered America’s treatment of its minorities, in a way which represents one … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign Affairs, Other
Tagged civil rights, Cold War, Foreign Affairs, Politics, Richard Nixon
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