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Meet Benjamin Elijah Mays, Schoolmaster of the Civil Rights Movement
On April 9, 1968, Benjamin Elijah Mays had the burdensome honor of delivering a eulogy for Martin Luther King Jr. on the campus of Morehouse …
civil rights movement
The States Project
Mississippi: A Historian Challenges H.L. Mencken
A Historian Challenges H.L. Mencken.
The States Project
Alabama: A Son of the South Returns to the Heart of Dixie
A Son of the South Returns to the Heart of Dixie.
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The Myth of the Black Church
My earliest ideas about African American religion and political struggle come from my first public memories as a child of the South of the late …
Writers tell us stories about where they discovered religion and politics in their states.
THE TABLE 
A setting to debate the issues of the day.
