Southerners, Too? Essays on the Black South,

Southerners, Too? challenges the view that southern heritage refers to white southerners only by revealing that, historically and culturally, African-Americans have been integral to southern life and history.

Alton Hornsby, Jr. is Fuller E. Callaway Professor of History at Morehouse College.

Preface	p. vii
Introduction	p. ix
Historiography and Methodology
The Changing Vicissitudes of Black Historiography	p. 3
Drum Major on the Mountaintop: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Great Man Theory of History	p. 13
The Central Theme Revisited-Again	p. 19
European Intellectuals and Southern Negroes, 1877-1901	p. 29
State and Local Studies
A Brief History of African Americans in Georgia, 1733-1868	p. 59
The Albany Movement within the Context of Local and Georgian History	p. 77
Religion
Religious Practices of Blacks in Atlanta, Georgia, 1865-1990	p. 89
Education
The Freedmen's Bureau Schools in Texas, 1865-1870	p. 123
"The Colored Branch University" Issue in Texas-Prelude to Sweatt vs. Painter	p. 145
Black Public Education in Atlanta, Georgia, 1954-1973: From Segregation to Segregation	p. 161
Politics and Civil Rights
Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement in Atlanta, Georgia	p. 199
"Not Eaves Please": Race, Class, and Atlanta's First African-American Commissioner of Public Safety, 1974-1978	p. 211
Economics
Roots of Rural Poverty since 1914	p. 233
Historical Discrimination in Atlanta's Marketplace	p. 239
Individuals
The Legacy of Grace Towns Hamilton to the Development of the City of Atlanta	p. 259
Andrew Jackson Young: Mayor of Atlanta, 1982-1990	p. 273
Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Man and His Philosophy	p. 305
Index	p. 313
About the Author	p. 319
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Southerners, Too? Essays on the Black South, 1733-1990

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