With sweeping civil war romance Gone with the Wind back in cinemas in a 4K digital restoration, we’ve rounded up 10 more Deep South movies worth giving a damn about.

A lifelong resident of Tennessee, photographer Tamara Reynolds has spent the past two years exploring back roads and small towns throughout Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky and her own home state.

Here you can find everything you need to know for an unforgettable Deep South road trip, including our itinerary and a lot of useful tips.

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In the 1980s an unknown photographer from New York travelled through the US capturing life in black communities. Now these mostly unseen pictures have made him a star

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Taken between 1939 and 1941, this series of colour photographs show black farmers working on cotton plantations in Mississippi and Louisiana while children look on. The pictures also depict families, make-shift stores, and the modest homes the workers lived in.

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On the road to Civil Rights, even children became public figures, such as six-year-old Ruby Bridges, who integrated an all-white elementary school in New Orleans on November 14, 1960. Ruby…

Photos show exhausted laborers picking cotton under the blistering hot sun, cutting Burley tobacco and fishing in a creek near cotton plantations in Mississippi.

A Deep South Road Trip Itinerary: Everything you need to know for the perfect Deep South road trip, including an itinerary, hints on what see and do, where to stay, when to go, and lots of planning tips!

Here are twenty books set in the Deep South that y'all should really read (see what I did there?).

Here are twenty books set in the Deep South that y'all should really read (see what I did there?).

Here are twenty books set in the Deep South that y'all should really read (see what I did there?).

Hier vind je alles wat je moet weten voor een onvergetelijke Deep South roadtrip, inclusief onze reisroute en heel wat nuttige tips om je reis te plannen.

The grandson of slaves, born into poverty in 1892 in the Deep South, A. G. Gaston died more than a century later with a fortune worth well over $130 million and a business empire spanning communications, real estate, and insurance. Gaston was, by any measure, a heroic figure whose wealth and influence bore comparison to J. P. Morgan and Andrew Carnegie. Here, for the first time, is the story of the life of this extraordinary pioneer, told by his niece and grandniece, the award-winning television journalist Carol Jenkins and her daughter Elizabeth Gardner Hines. Born at a time when the bitter legacy of slavery and Reconstruction still poisoned the lives of black Americans, Gaston was determined to make a difference for himself and his people. His first job, after serving in the celebrated all-black regiment during World War I, bound him to the near-slavery of an Alabama coal mine--but even here Gaston saw not only hope but opportunity. He launched a business selling lunches to fellow miners, soon established a rudimentary bank--and from then on there was no stopping him. A kind of black Horatio Alger, Gaston let a single, powerful question be his guide: What do our people need now? His success flowed from an uncanny genius for knowing the answer. Combining rich family lore with a deep knowledge of American social and economic history, Carol Jenkins and Elizabeth Hines unfold Gaston's success story against the backdrop of a century of crushing racial hatred and bigotry. Gaston not only survived the hardships of being black during the Depression, he flourished, and by the 1950s he was ruling a Birmingham-based business empire. When the movement for civil rights swept through the South in the late 1950s and early 1960s, Gaston provided critical financial support to many activists. At the time of his death in 1996, A. G. Gaston was one of the wealthiest black men in America, if not the wealthiest. But his legacy extended far beyond the monetary. He was a man who had proved it was possible to overcome staggering odds and make a place for himself as a leader, a captain of industry, and a far-sighted philanthropist. Writing with grace and power, Jenkins and Hines bring their distinguished ancestor fully to life in the pages of this book. Black Titan is the story of a man who created his own future--and in the process, blazed a future for all black businesspeople in America. Product DetailsISBN-13: 9780345453488 Media Type: Paperback Publisher: One World Publication Date: 01-25-2005 Pages: 352 Product Dimensions: 8.26h x 5.52w x 0.74dAbout the Author Carol Jenkins, niece of A. G. Gaston, is an Emmy Award-winning television journalist and now heads her own production company in New York City, specializing in television films and documentaries. For nearly twenty-five years she was an anchor and correspondent for WNBC-TV in New York. Elizabeth Gardner Hines, Ms. Jenkins's daughter, is a writer. A graduate of Yale, with an M.A. in English literature from Harvard University, Ms. Hines is the recipient of several academic prizes and fellowships. She lives in New York City.

On the road to Civil Rights, even children became public figures, such as six-year-old Ruby Bridges, who integrated an all-white elementary school in New Orleans on November 14, 1960. Ruby…

In 1954, the White Citizens’ Councils began a campaign of intimidation to shut down the movement toward integration.

Here is my suggested itinerary for a 3-week road trip around the Deep South, including accommodation suggestions!

Taken between 1939 and 1941, this series of colour photographs show black farmers working on cotton plantations in Mississippi and Louisiana while children look on. The pictures also depict families, make-shift stores, and the modest homes the workers lived in.

\"Last Summer\" tells the story of two high school sweethearts, Luke (Pettit) and Jonah (Rose), who spend their last months together over? a long, quiet summer in the deep South, contemplating their uncertain future and the uncertain future of America. Jonah, sensitive, quiet and artistic, prepares to leave his small town for college, leaving Luke behind, but all he wants is for Luke to ask him to stay. But Luke, an athlete struggling through summer school, understands that his boyfriend needs to experience the world outside their home. Though he is somewhat aimless and unsure of his spot in the world, he starts to find solace in an old camera.

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Everyone loves To Kill a Mockingbird and Southern Gothic fare, but sometimes it seems as if southern literature lists limit their scope to stories from the deep, swampy South. As a book nerd who grew up in the Piedmont of South Carolina, I've often…

Photos show exhausted laborers picking cotton under the blistering hot sun, cutting Burley tobacco and fishing in a creek near cotton plantations in Mississippi.

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A book review of Jamie Scott's (Michele Gorman) Little Sacrifices, a coming-of-age novel set in Savannah, Georgia during the late 1940's.

Taken between 1939 and 1941, this series of colour photographs show black farmers working on cotton plantations in Mississippi and Louisiana while children look on. The pictures also depict families, make-shift stores, and the modest homes the workers lived in.

Residents of the Palmetto State know that living in South Carolina is the best, but in case you weren't convinced, here are 20 reasons why.

On the road to Civil Rights, even children became public figures, such as six-year-old Ruby Bridges, who integrated an all-white elementary school in New Orleans on November 14, 1960. Ruby…

Here are twenty books set in the Deep South that y'all should really read (see what I did there?).

Here are twenty books set in the Deep South that y'all should really read (see what I did there?).

Several movies have been made here. Caddo Lake is in Texas and Louisiana. Caddo Lake movies: ops.tamu.edu/x075bb/caddo/cadmovie.html

With sweeping civil war romance Gone with the Wind back in cinemas in a 4K digital restoration, we’ve rounded up 10 more Deep South movies worth giving a damn about.

Here are twenty books set in the Deep South that y'all should really read (see what I did there?).

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"The true story of a black man called Carlton Gary, arrested for the rape and murder of seven elderly women in Columbus, Georgia. It's a story about corrupt police and judges, racism in the Deep South of America, and the many critical failings in the US justice system. Despite no compelling physical evidence against him, Gary remains on Death Row today nearly 40 years after his arrest, still fighting appeal after appeal for his release. Think Making a Murderer but with a whole racial backstory of lynching and slavery!" –tushtush

Everyone loves To Kill a Mockingbird and Southern Gothic fare, but sometimes it seems as if southern literature lists limit their scope to stories from the deep, swampy South. As a book nerd who grew up in the Piedmont of South Carolina, I've often…

Here are twenty books set in the Deep South that y'all should really read (see what I did there?).

Here are twenty books set in the Deep South that y'all should really read (see what I did there?).

This groundbreaking study of the law and culture of slavery in the antebellum Deep South takes readers into local courtrooms where people settled their civil disputes over property. Buyers sued sellers for breach of warranty when they considered slaves to be physically or morally defective; owners sued supervisors who whipped or neglected slaves under their care. How, asks Ariela J. Gross, did communities reconcile the dilemmas such trials raised concerning the character of slaves and masters? Although slaves could not testify in court, their character was unavoidably at issue--and so their moral agency intruded into the courtroom. In addition, says Gross, \"wherever the argument that black character depended on management by a white man appeared, that white man's good character depended on the demonstration that bad black character had other sources.\" This led, for example, to physicians testifying that pathologies, not any shortcomings of their master, drove slaves to became runaways. Gross teases out other threads of complexity woven into these trials: the ways that legal disputes were also affairs of honor between white men; how witnesses and litigants based their views of slaves' character on narratives available in the culture at large; and how law reflected and shaped racial ideology. Combining methods of cultural anthropology, quantitative social history, and critical race theory, Double Character brings to life the law as a dramatic ritual in people's daily lives, and advances critical historical debates about law, honor, and commerce in the American South.

In 1966, Uhura was the first black woman as a main character on US TV who was not a servant. NBC refused to let Nichelle Nichols be a regular, claiming Deep South affiliates would be angered, so Star...

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