African American History at Rhodes College

Looking Back on almost four centuries of residence in the Western World, African Americans could correctly visualize themselves, from the beginning, as an integral part of the struggle for freedom. -John Hope Franklin

Friday, December 9, 2011

Subconscious Racism

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Subconscious Racism             In the movie “A Time to Kill”, a black man named Carl Lee Hailey is on trial in a small town i...

Made It In America

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On the new album Watch the Throne, Jay-Z and Kanye have a song called Made it in America. The song starts off with: Sweet King Martin Swee...

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I was working in the RAB office one day, and I was looking at the posters we have in there for all the artists we have had play at Rhodes. T...

Kentucky Church Bans Interracial Marriages

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Something that has been a recent topic of conversation and debate is the small church in Kentucky (Gulnare Free Will Baptist Church) that ha...
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Firestone Memphis: A Local Example of 1950's Resistance to the Status-Quo

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For my final research paper in my Civil Rights in Memphis class, I decided to look at segregation and employee discrimination based on rac...
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Interracial Relationships

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Recently, one of my close female friends was approached by a fellow male student who bluntly inquired about her involvement in an in...
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Bloody Sunday-Local Groundswell in Selma, Alabama Remembered

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On Wednesday, Civil Rights Leader Bob Mants, who lead the march from Selma to Montgomery protesting for equal voting rights, died of a...
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