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Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Zucchino detailed how over 2,000 white supremacists rioted through Wilmington, North Carolina, on November 10, 1898, which resulted in the deaths of 60 Bl…

Author Joshua Rothman looked at the slave trade in America, and authors Joshua Rothman, Orville Burton and Armand Derfner argued that legal and judicial systems have protected and upheld sys…

Kendra Allen, author of When You Learn the Alphabet, and and Jennine Cap Crucet, author of My Time Among the Whites: Notes from an Unfinished Education, talked about their books on race issu…

Susan Neiman talked about her book, Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil, in which she examined lessons Germany and the U.S. have learned from violence and hate in the past…

Rochelle Riley, Rae Paris, and Kiese Lamon discussed race in America.

Beth Macy talked about her book, Truevine: Two Brothers, a Kidnapping, and a Mother’s Quest - A True Story of the Jim Crow South. She spoke at the 28th annual Southern Festival of Books …

Patrick Phillips, author of Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America and Jason Ward, author of Hanging Bridge: Racial Violence and America’s Civil Rights Century, discuss their respe…

Co-authors Marjory Wentworth, Bernard Powers, and Herb Frazier talked about their book, We Are Charleston: Tragedy and Triumph at Mother Emanuel. They spoke at the 28th annual Southern F…

Andrew Maraniss, author of Strong Inside: Perry Wallace and the Collision of Race and Sports in the South, and Ansley Erickson, author of Making the Unequal Metropolis: School Desegregation …

Kristen Green, author of Something Must Be Done About Prince Edward County: A Family, A Virginia Town, a Civil Rights Battle, and Jim Grimsley, author of How I Shed My Skin: Unlearning the R…

Clifton Taulbert talked about his book, The Invitation, a memoir about how he dealt with the experience of a supper invitation to a former plantation house in Allendale, South Carolina, wher…

Alice Goffman, author of On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City, Ellen Spears, author of Baptized in PCBs: Race, Pollution, and Justice in an All-American Town, and Chris Tomlinson, a…

Authors talked about the history of race relations, civil rights, and justice in the American South. Chet Bush is the author of Called to the Fire: A Witness for God in Mississippi - The…

Hal Crowther talked about his book Gather at the River: Notes from the Post-Millennial South, published by Louisiana State University Press. The author discussed the southern half of the Uni…

Andrew Ward talked about his book River Run Red: The Fort Pillow Massacre in the American Civil War, published by Viking. The book detailed the capture of the Union garrison at Fort Pillow,…

Alan Grady and Frye Gaillard appear together to discuss their books about Alabama history published by the University of Alabama Press. Mr. Grady is the author of When Good Men Do Nothing: …

Ms. Swain talked about her latest book, The New White Nationalism in America: Its Challenge to Integration, published by Cambridge University Press. In it, the author argues that modern whit…

Author David Goldfield discussed his newest book, Still Fighting the Civil War: The American South and Southern History, published by Louisiana State University Press. In it, the author make…

Professors Teel and Bauerlein discussed the history of race in America. Professor Teel wrote Ralph Emerson McGill: Voice of the Southern Conscience. Professor Bauerlein wrote Negrophobia: A …

The authors discussed their decisions to write about race and race relations. Mr. Hemphill talked about his book The Ballad of Little River: A Tale of Race and Restless Youth in the Rural S…