Syllabus

The Insurgent South: Movements for Social Change

PPS 166/History 166A - Fall 2005
Mon/Wed 10:05-11:20 Room 03 Sanford
Robert Korstad
rkorstad@duke.edu
613-7335
Office Hours:
Monday 1:30-2:30 and by appointment
Room 112 Sanford Institute
Teaching Assistants:
Max Krochmal: maximilian.krochmal@duke.edu
Jesse Hastings: jgh5@duke.edu

COURSE REQUIREMENTS

Books (Available at the Duke Textbook Store)

William Cooper, Jr. and Thomas E. Terrill, The American South: A History, Volume II

Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, James Leloudis, Robert Korstad, Mary Murphy, Lu Ann Jones and Christopher B. Daly, Like A Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World

Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, Revolt Against Chivalry: Jessie Daniels Ames and the Women’s Campaign Against Lynching

Robert Korstad, Civil Rights Unionism: Tobacco Workers and the Struggle for Democracy in the Mid-Twentieth Century South

Charles Payne, I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Movement

Documentary Film Series

Black Reconstruction/White Redemption: Excerpts from “Birth of a Nation” (Lilly DVD 1778); excerpts from “Within Our Gates” (VC 4741) by Oscar Micheaux .
Screenings: September 14 and 15, Room 05 Sanford, 8:30

Revolt of the Millhands: “Uprising of ‘34” (VC 4375)
Screenings: October 3 and 4, Room 05 Sanford, 8:30

War on Poverty: The North Carolina Fund
Screenings: November 15, Room 05 Sanford, 8:30

Grassroots Conservatism: “With God on Our Side” (VC 10001)
Screenings: December 5 and 6, Room 05 Sanford, 8:30

iPod Selections
TBA

Papers

1. One-page comment on the readings for twenty of the twenty-six class periods. Comment is due on Blackboard by 7:00 a.m. on the day of the class. You must attend class to get credit for the comment. (30%)

2. A 10-page paper on a specific social movement, some combination of social movements, or broader theme. A one-page prospectus identifying the question to be addressed is due November 14. (30%)

Class Participation
Participation in class discussion and on Blackboard (10%)

Exam
There will be a final exam. You will be able to use your notes from the readings, lectures, iPod selections, and film series. (30 %)

CLASS SCHEDULE

Introduction
August 29: What is the Insurgent South?

PART I
Black Reconstruction and White Redemption
August 31: Cooper and Terrill, Chapters 16 & 17
September 5: Cooper and Terrill, Chapter 18

Laborers, Farmers, and the Populist Moment
September 7: Cooper and Terrill, Chapter 19 and Steven Hahn, A Nation Under Our Feet, Chapter 9, “The Valley and the Shadows”

September 12: Cooper and Terrill, Chapter 20 and Lawrence Goodwyn, “Populist Dreams and Negro Rights: East Texas as a Case Study”

September 14: Cooper and Terrill, Chapter 21 and Michael Honey, Democracy Betrayed, “Class, Race, and Power in the New South”

PART II
Woman Suffrage
September 19: Cooper and Terrill, Chapter 22 and Majorie Wheeler, “The Woman Suffrage Movement in the Inhospitable South”

September 21: Suzanne Lebsock, “Woman Suffrage and White Supremacy: A Virginia Case Study” and Glenda Gilmore, Gender and Jim Crow, Chapter 8, “Women and Ballots”

Revolt of the Millhands
September 26: Cooper and Terrill, Chapter 23 and Forward and Chapters 1-3, Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, James Leloudis, Robert Korstad, Mary Murphy, Lu Ann Jones and Christopher B. Daly, Like A Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World
Chapters 1-3.

September 28: Like A Family, Chapters 4 & 5

October 3: Like A Family, Chapter 6

The Culture of Protest: Music of the 30s
October 5:iPod Selections

Women and the Crusade Against Lynching
October 12: Cooper and Terrill, Chapter 24 and Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, Revolt Against Chivalry: Jessie Daniels Ames and the Women’s Campaign Against Lynching, Introduction and Chapters 1-4

October 17: Revolt Against Chivalry, Chapter 5

October 19: Revolt Against Chivalry, Chapters 6-9 and Epilogue

PART III
Black Workers in War and Peace
October 24: Cooper and Terrill, Chapter 25 and Robert Rodgers Korstad, Civil Rights Unionism: Tobacco Workers and the Struggle for Democracy in the Mid-Twentieth Century South, Introduction and Chapters 1-5

October 26: Civil Rights Unionism, Chapters 6-11

October 31: Civil Rights Unionism, Chapters 12-15 and Epilogue

The Civil Rights Movement
November 2: Reading: Cooper and Terrill, Chapter 26 and Charles Payne, I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Movement, Introduction and Chapters 1-3

November 7: I've Got the Light of Freedom, Chapters 5-10

November 9: I've Got the Light of Freedom, Chapters 11-14, Epilogue and Bibliographic Essay

The War on Poverty
November 14:The North Carolina Fund
Reading: Korstad and Leloudis, “Citizen Soldiers: The North Carolina Volunteers and the
War on Poverty”
http://www.law.duke.edu/journals/lcp/articles/lcp62dAutumn1999p177.htm

November 16: The Delta Health Center
Reading: Senate hearings, March 2-4, 6, 1970. David Weeks, Andrew James, Mrs. Coleman, Jack Geiger, L.C. Dorsey, Louis Young, Rogers Morris, John Hatch.

November 21:Appalachia
Reading: Chad Montrie, To Save the Land and People A History of Opposition to Surface Coal Mining in Appalachia, Chapter 5. “We Will Stop the Bulldozers: Opposition to Surface Coal Mining in Kentucky, 1967-1972”

PART IV
Grassroots Conservatism
November 28: Reaction to What?
Reading: Cooper and Terrill, Chapters 27 & 28
Van Gosse, “Part Three: The Reagan Revolution and the Politics of Restoration” http://www.grassrootspolicy.org/publications/vangosse/reagan.html

Gerard Alexander, “The Myth of the Racist Republicans”
http://claremont.org/writings/crb/spring2004/alexander.html

November 30: The New Christian Right
Reading: Michael Lienesch, Redeeming America, Introduction & Chapter 2.

December 5: White Working-Class Baltimore
Reading: Kenneth D. Durr, Behind the Backlash, Chapters 6 & 7.

The Insurgent South Today
December 7

Final Paper Due
December 9

Exam
December 12, 7:00-10:00 p.m.