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How do we remember a complicated past? What do we owe those who lived in the past? What do we owe future generations? These are some of the questions scholars considered when looking at how …

University of North Carolina History Professor William Sturkey provided a history of the Jim Crow South through the lives of Black Americans who lived in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. This was a…

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Professor William Sturkey taught a class about expanding rights in the 1960s and '70s, looking at women’s liberation and the gay rights movement. …

Authors Rebecca Tuuri, Shennette Garrett-Scott, Ted Ownby, William Sturkey and Dave Tell reflected on race and civil rights in America. They spoke at the 2019 Mississippi Book Festival.