Other works have examined the failure of desegregation, especially in schools and neighborhoods, and the resiliency of white supremacy and Black poverty, while newer scholarship has focused on the movement in the North, collapsing the distinction between de jure and de facto segregation and uncovering the pervasiveness of racial discrimination as a national, not merely a southern, phenomenon. Black organizing tradition, a tradition that scholars often ignore in their emphasis on mobilizing events, those dramatic moments featured in the media.11 This media-driven history has given us good theater but often obscures what each of these books so movingly conveys: that ordinary people are capable ot extraordinary contributions to social change.
...Catherine Fosl's study of southern white antiracisni advocat...
A wide variety of authors of both fiction and nonfiction will be on hand at the first Western Kentucky Book Expo, scheduled at the John A. Arnold Convention Center in Sturgis on Oct. 30.
Organized by the Union County Advocate, the expo will feature such authors as Emmy-winning CBS newsman David Dick, British author Rosalind Miles, mystery writer Lynn Hightower, Jesse Stuart Foundation authors David Palmore, Bill Greer, Mary Ellen Klatte and Alma Roberts and others.
... Ellis, Michael Embry, Deborah Ford, Catherine Fosl, Lori Foster, Joey Goebel, Bill Grier, Paulet...