Uncivil War: Memory and Identity in the Reconstruction of the Civil Rights Movement.
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Out of the silence: Remembering the desegregation of Clinton, Tennessee, High School
RACHEL L. MARTIN: Out of the Silence: Remembering the Desegregation of Clinton, Tennessee, High School (Under the direction of Dr. Jacquelyn Dowd Hall) In May 1957, Bobby Cain—a black student—graduated from the newly-integrated Clinton, Tennessee, High School. During that school year, conflict had exploded along the social divisions running through the town, exposing the class resentments that had long fractured the community. The violence culminated in 1958 when unknown bombers destroyed the school by dynamite. Despite the violence, Clinton High never resegregated or closed, making it the first Southern school to successfully desegregate under a court order. Though it served as a blueprint for later desegregation attempts, within a few years, Clinton’s story faded from public memory, replaced by civil rights battles occurring in larger cities across America. But the people of Clinton never forgot their groundbreaking role. In 2005 I launched an oral history project in Clinton, and I discovered that individuals in the town remember different, and often contradictory, versions of the events. The version commemorated in the town’s museum and other official venues, however, celebrates the white businessmen who acquiesced to the court order. This simplification of civil rights stories happens frequently, but glossing over the anger and the pain running through the past allows Americans to ignore the ways in which our society is constructed on inequality. It also hinders our ability to correctly diagnose the reasons that we as a society continue to struggle
Bodies of Evidence: Burial, Memory and the Recovery of Missing Persons in Cyprus
List of Figures and Maps Acknowledgements Chapter 1. Heirs of Antigone: Disappearances and Political Memory Chapter 2. Suppressed Experiences Chapter 3. Testimonies of Fragmentation, Recollections of Unity Chapter 4. The Missing as a Set of Representations Chapter 5. The Martyrdom of the Missing Chapter 6. L'image Juste, or Juste une Image? Chapter 7. Painting Absences, Describing Losses Chapter 8. Antigone's Doubt, Creon's Dilemma Chapter 9. Power, Complicity, and Public Secrecy Bibliography Appendices Index