Between the Wars

The Benighted Image

     -H.L. Menken, "The Sahara of Bozart" (1917, 1920)
              -Beaux-Arts

Thomas Nelson Page
     -Local Color
     -In Old Virginia (1897)

Joel Chandler Harris
     -Uncle Remus

George Washington Cable
     -Old Creole Days (1879)

Ellen Glasgow
     -The Descendant (1897)
     -Voice of the People (1900)
     -Barren Ground (1925)

Thomas Wolfe
     -Look Homeward Angel (1925)

William Faulkner
     -Yoknapatawpha County (Mississippi)

Margaret Mitchell
     -Gone With The Wind (1936)

Twelve Southerners
     -I'll Take My Stand (1930)
          -David Donaldson
          -John Crowe Ransom
          -Frank L. Owsley
          -Alan Tate
          -Robert Penn Warren

Howard Odum
     -Horace Kephart, Our Southern Highlanders (1922)
     -Ronald Eller, Miners, Millhands,and Mountaineers (1979)

Social Fundamentalism

Scopes Monkey Trial (1925)
     -John Scopes
     -Clarence Darrow
     -William Jennings Bryan
     -John T. Raulston

Second Ku Klux Klan
     -D.W. Griffith, Birth of a Nation (1915)
          -Thomas Dixon, The Klansman (1904)

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Report on Economic Conditions of the South (1938)

Agricultural Adjustment Acts (1933, 1935)
     -Farm Bureau
     -Farmers' Union
     -Southern Tenant Farmers' Union

CCC, PWA, CWA, WPA, TVA

National Industrial Recovery Act (1933)

National Labor Relations Act (1935)
     -Wagner Act

Fair Labor Standards Act (1938)

Conservative Manifesto (1938)

 

 

 


Joel Chandler Harris,
 Uncle Remus (1881)

 
      Br'er Rabbit


Bridge over Yocona River


  Movie Poster (1938)


      Scarlet at Tara

 


Clarence Darrow &
William Jennings Bryan
at Scopes Trial, 1925


Scopes Monkey Trial Cartoon

 


Tennessee Valley Authority

 

 

 

 

 


   Uncle Remus

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


     Tara (Plantation)

 


   Scarlet and Mammy

 

 


Scopes Verdict Cartoon