HISTORY 3090

THE AMERICAN SOUTH STUDENT PROJECTS

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Spring 2006
These are the final results of student research projects, for History 3090 in Spring Semester 2006, on a perspective of the Atlanta Race Riot of 1906.

Student
Project Title

Brittnee Bethea 1906 Atlanta Race Riot and African Americans

Anneli Castaneda

Jonathan Fitch Atlanta Riot as Observed in the Nation's Press

Isabel Golob Religious Influence during the 1906 Atlanta Race Riot

Carol Gunio Atlanta Race Riot: Newspapers Difference of Opinions

Leslie Leatherwood Actions of the Atlanta Police Department During the Race Riot of 1906

Carole Poss The 1906 Atlanta Race Riot as a Consequence of the Threat of the Upwardly Mobile Black

Cynthia Wilbur

Fall 2005
These are the final results of student research projects, for History 3090 in Fall Semester 2005, on some aspect of the process of desegregation in their hometown.

Student
Project Title

Barbara Brady Courts and the Countryside: Segregation in Jackson County, Georgia

Patrick Dobson Synopsis of Desegregation of Atlanta Catholic Schools

Melissa Hugunin The Medical Realm of Southern Desegregation of Medicine, Post Reconstruction

Amber Paul The Fluidity of the Anti-Miscegenation Spirit in Atlanta and southern Georgia:
a Charter of Interracial Intimacy from de Jure to de Facto Opposition, and Beyond

Stephanie Smith Desegregation of Atlanta Public Schools

Szuying Wu Hotel Desegregation Movement in Atlanta Area in 1960s

Fall 2004
These are the final results of student research projects, for History 3090 in Fall Semester 2004, on the process of school desegregation in their hometown. Others, who did not attend public school, explored the relationship between their private school and desegregation.

Student
Project Title

Daniel Allman Desegregation of the Lovett School

Jason Andrews Desegregation in Coffee County

John Ash District 078: Desegregation in Jackson County

Travis Barnwell Public School Integration in Georgia and Gwinnett County

Edward Bates The DeKalb County School Desegregation

Thomas Bennett Desegregation of the Classic City: Clarke County, Georgia

Mary Blackstone History of Desegregation: Athens-Clarke County

Jesse Block From Our Nation to Our Neighborhoods; The Integration of Gwinnett County Schools

Art Brady The Desegregation Movement and Private Academies

Matthew Bridges Struggle In Clarke County, Georgia

Anthony Butler The Integration of the Peach County School System

Amanda Causey Desegregation and the Monroe County School System

Chris Corless Integration of Rockdale County Schools

Ryan Couch The Desegregation of Schools in Ben Hill County

Christie Dalton The Desegregation of the Clarke County School System

Michael Daniel The Integration of Monroe County Schools

Jessica Drobny Desegregation in Gwinnett County Schools

Beth Ensley The Battle for Equality: Desegregation of Jackson County Georgia

Joseph Fowler Dissolving the Differences

Molli Freeman-Lynde Desegregation in Clarke County

Dana Gant Desegregation in Richmond County

Brooke Greene The Desegregation of Walton County Schools

Sarah Hanink Muscogee County Schools and the Failure of Desegregation

Crystal Kitts Desegregation in Columbia County Schools

Chris Leonard Integration of Gwinnett County Public Schools

John Mathews The Desegregation of the Atlanta School System

Stacey McElveen Desegregation in Richmond County Georgia

Michael Overstreet Cobb County School Integration

Harrison Palmer Desegregation of the Bulloch County School System

Matthew Parrish Desegregation in Chatham County, GA

Kelly Poole Slowly but Surely, Two Decades of Desegregation in Dallas, Texas

Bryan Pruiett School Integration and Race Relations in Murray County

Kathleen Reeves Integration of Wilkes County Public Schools

Jed Roebuck Integration of a School and Family

Lauren Shirley Clarke County School District Desegregation

Lisa Shoemaker The Desegregation of the Clarke County School System

Tiffany Snell The Desegregation of the Gwinnett County School System

Lois Thomas-Wright The Final Compromise: The Desegregation of Clarke County Schools, Athens, Georgia

Spring 2004
These are the final results of student research projects for History 3090 in Spring Semester 2004, on local power relations of the Jim Crow South as demonstrated by the Slave Narrative Interviews done by the Federal Writers Project of the Works Progress Administration in the 1930s. Not everyone chose the Slave Narrative assignment, so other projects will address other issues dealing with race relations in the South during the Great Depression.

Student
Project Title

Niel Alden Sarah H. Hall and the Ex-Slave Narratives: Exploring the Validity of the WPA Georgia Writer's Project

Alexis Andrade Works Projects Administration: Slave Narratives

Matthew Bennett WPA Slave Narratives and Race Relations in the Great Depression

Eugene Bledsoe A Window into Racial Segregation in Atlanta During the Depression

Jenny Boone Slave Narratives and the Depression-Era South

Jenifer Briggs 1930's Race relation in the American South:Relationship of Grace McCune and Mirriam McCommons

Lauren Britton Segregation in Birmingham Schools

Bert Browne Myth and History Intertwined: The History of the WPA Slave Narratives

Bryan Burroughs Desegregation of the University of Georgia

Will Chappell J.R. Jones and Race Relations: A Historical Interpretation of Muscogee County

Chad Cowan John Malcom Patterson: How race defined the career of the Alabama Governor

Andy Cross A Slave Narrative in the Context of the Great Depression

Becky Dobras Atlanta Race Riot of 1906: White Supremacy Taken to the Extreme

Beth Dobson The Ex-Slave Narratives Racial Dynamic

Allison Dunivant Atlanta Sit-Ins 1960-61

John Embry Racism and the Great Depression

Adam Evans The Decline and Fall of Group Violence in the South and Athens, Georgia;
Racism, the Ku Klux Klan and John Lee Eberhardt

Michael Flippo Tulsa Race Riot of 1921

Chad Floyd A Recollection of the Life and Times of Slaves in the South

Kevin Giesler He Writes a Sermon that No One Will Hear

Megan Glover Segregation in Schools During the New Deal in Marietta, Georgia:
The Effects of Separate But Equal in The Nineteen Thirties and Beyond

Leah Gray A Biography of Slave Narrative Interviewer Grace McCune: Athens, Georgia

Kathryn Griggs Neighbors in Columbus

Doug Harris Exploring Depression Era Race Relations Through Sadie B. Hornsby;
A Federal Writers’ Project Interviewer

Josh Harwell A Similar Life: A Biography of Grace McCune and A Brief History of Athens, Georgia

Alan Henley Educational Segregation of Athens in the 1930's

Rachel Hettinger Slave Narratives through the Lens of the Great Depression

Rebekah Hettinger Zora Neale Hurston: Spokeswoman for African-American Culture

CeeCee Hickey Minnie Stonestreet’s WPA Slave Narrative

Jennifer Hollifield An Unbiased Account of Slave Life

Seth Holm Influence of Interviewers, the Great Depression, and the New Deal on WPA Slave Narratives

Sumner Holman "Sitting-Down" to Gain Racial Rights in Savannah

Jessica Huerta The Effect of Slave Narratives

Keidre Hull Surviving the New Slavery: How Greene County Blacks Struggled
for Autonomy During the Development of the New South Social Order

Meredith Hunter The Life & Times Of Mattie B. Roberts

Daniel Jackson Understanding History with the Slave Narrative Collection

Justin Jacobs African American Women of Atlanta

Lucye Jordan Desegregation in Georgia School Systems

Kevin Kadzis The Atlanta Riot of 1906

Melvina Kemp The Segregated School System in Atlanta: An Agent of Social Control and Black Oppression

Sarah Kenworthy The Jim Crow South: Racial Etiquette and its Implications in the Slave Narratives

Trey Lopez An Exodus

Jessica Lund Pieces of the Past: The Effects of Race Relations on the WPA Slave Narratives

Daniel McDonald Slavery as Seen Through The Eyes of the Federal Writer’s Project

Jessica Mixson Ruth H. Sanford, Susan Matthews, and the Slave Interviews of the 1930s

Michael O'Sullivan "Slave Narrative" writer Edwin Driskell

Stephanie Peterson How the Laurens County Area Dealt with Segregation from the 1930s to the1950s

Michael Petit Through the Eyes of an African American WPA Interviewer

Reed Rogers A study on the impact of race and class in Milledgeville, Georgia during the 1930’s

Julie Rushkewicz Independent, Educated, and Ahead of Her Time

Kate Shepard Ruby Lorraine Radford and the Ex-Slave Narratives

Tracy Shy Desegregation and the Uprising of Private Schools in Atlanta, Georgia

Matt Shirley The Atlanta Black Crackers

Dorothee Soler Ex-Slaves Narratives: interviewer-interviewee, a special relationship

Karl Stein Lynching as a Method of Social Control in the Jim Crow South

Sarah Sweeley Geneva Tonsill and the WPA Slave Narratives

Katherine Taylor Cut it Down

Heather Thayer Women of the Great Depression

Brian Tomkins Louise Oliphant's Interview of Leah Garrett

Julia Tyndall The Slave Narratives: A Look at the Relationship between the Writer’s and Their Subjects

Michael Walton The Writers behind the WPA Slave Narratives: Geneva Tonsill

Chris Wascom First Steps Towards Integration

Anthony White The Spectrums of History in Washington-Wilkes Georgia

Philip White Edwin Driskell, Depression, and Race Relations During New Deal America

Hillary Wilson The Many Victims of Southern White Male Propaganda: As seen through the eyes of a Federal Writer from Georgia

Fall 2003
These are the final results of student research projects for History 3090 in Fall Semester 2003, on local reaction to adoption of the Georgia state flag in 1956.

Student
Project Title

Andrew Blascovich The 1956 State Flag Change and Subsequent Integration In Macon, Georgia

Shannon Buff Walker County and Chickamauga: A Silent Defense for Segregation

Jennifer Caudill Past and Present Positions Surrounding Southern Identity

Jen Colatosti Preserving a Way of Life: Atlanta and the State Flag Change of 1956

Meghan Conley Lee County and The 1956 Flag Change

Megan Cooper 1956 Flag Change: A Year of Controversy

Westray Day Georgia, Atlanta, and the South during the 1956 flag change

Shalamar Dunn Attitudes toward Desegregation

Leigh Farnell Relations in Jacksonville, Florida: 1950-1960

Laura Henry Preservation at All Costs

Isaac Howard The Resistance of the South

Nathan Marsh The Georgia State Flag of 1956

Jennifer Meazell Racist Roswell

Callie Melton Deflagregation

Matthew Peal A Banner of Hate

Jeremy Sellers Code of Silence: the Apparent Non-reaction of the Citizens
of Savannah to the State Flag Change of 1956

Aprile Steel Coffee County’s Response to the 1956 Georgia State Flag Change
In Its Historical Context

Andrew Turner The Racial Sentiment of the South during the 1950’s
and in particular Fayette Co. Georgia

Matthew Waldrop How Tifton reacted to the 1956 flag change

John Watson Brown vs. the Board of Education and the Effect Desegregation
had on the South as a Whole, as Well as the Communities of
Little Rock, Arkansas and Hyde County, North Carolina

Ariel Wilson The 1956 Flag and Its Implications

Chuck Worn 1956 Georgia State Flag Change

Spring 2006 These are the final results of student research projects, for History 3090 in Spring Semester 2006, on a perspective of the Atlanta Race Riot of 1906.
Student	Project Title
Brittnee Bethea	1906 Atlanta Race Riot and African Americans
Anneli Castaneda
Jonathan Fitch	Atlanta Riot as Observed in the Nation's Press
Isabel Golob	Religious Influence during the 1906 Atlanta Race Riot
Carol Gunio	Atlanta Race Riot: Newspapers Difference of Opinions
Leslie Leatherwood	Actions of the Atlanta Police Department During the Race Riot of 1906
Carole Poss	The 1906 Atlanta Race Riot as a Consequence of the Threat of the Upwardly Mobile Black
Cynthia Wilbur
Fall 2005 These are the final results of student research projects, for History 3090 in Fall Semester 2005, on some aspect of the process of desegregation in their hometown.
Student	Project Title
Barbara Brady	Courts and the Countryside: Segregation in Jackson County, Georgia
Patrick Dobson	Synopsis of Desegregation of Atlanta Catholic Schools
Melissa Hugunin	The Medical Realm of Southern Desegregation of Medicine, Post Reconstruction
Amber Paul	The Fluidity of the Anti-Miscegenation Spirit in Atlanta and southern Georgia: a Charter of Interracial Intimacy from de Jure to de Facto Opposition, and Beyond
Stephanie Smith	Desegregation of Atlanta Public Schools
Szuying Wu	Hotel Desegregation Movement in Atlanta Area in 1960s





Fall 2004 These are the final results of student research projects, for History 3090 in Fall Semester 2004, on the process of school desegregation in their hometown. Others, who did not attend public school, explored the relationship between their private school and desegregation.
Student	Project Title
Daniel Allman	Desegregation of the Lovett School
Jason Andrews	Desegregation in Coffee County
John Ash	District 078: Desegregation in Jackson County
Travis Barnwell	Public School Integration in Georgia and Gwinnett County
Edward Bates	The DeKalb County School Desegregation
Thomas Bennett	Desegregation of the Classic City: Clarke County, Georgia
Mary Blackstone	History of Desegregation: Athens-Clarke County
Jesse Block	From Our Nation to Our Neighborhoods; The Integration of Gwinnett County Schools
Art Brady	The Desegregation Movement and Private Academies
Matthew Bridges	Struggle In Clarke County, Georgia
Anthony Butler	The Integration of the Peach County School System
Amanda Causey	Desegregation and the Monroe County School System
Chris Corless	Integration of Rockdale County Schools
Ryan Couch	The Desegregation of Schools in Ben Hill County
Christie Dalton	The Desegregation of the Clarke County School System
Michael Daniel	The Integration of Monroe County Schools
Jessica Drobny	Desegregation in Gwinnett County Schools
Beth Ensley	The Battle for Equality: Desegregation of Jackson County Georgia
Joseph Fowler	Dissolving the Differences
Molli Freeman-Lynde	Desegregation in Clarke County
Dana Gant	Desegregation in Richmond County
Brooke Greene	The Desegregation of Walton County Schools
Sarah Hanink	Muscogee County Schools and the Failure of Desegregation
Crystal Kitts	Desegregation in Columbia County Schools
Chris Leonard	Integration of Gwinnett County Public Schools
John Mathews	The Desegregation of the Atlanta School System
Stacey McElveen	Desegregation in Richmond County Georgia
Michael Overstreet	Cobb County School Integration
Harrison Palmer	Desegregation of the Bulloch County School System
Matthew Parrish	Desegregation in Chatham County, GA
Kelly Poole	Slowly but Surely, Two Decades of Desegregation in Dallas, Texas
Bryan Pruiett	School Integration and Race Relations in Murray County
Kathleen Reeves	Integration of Wilkes County Public Schools
Jed Roebuck	Integration of a School and Family
Lauren Shirley	Clarke County School District Desegregation
Lisa Shoemaker	The Desegregation of the Clarke County School System
Tiffany Snell	The Desegregation of the Gwinnett County School System
Lois Thomas-Wright	The Final Compromise: The Desegregation of Clarke County Schools, Athens, Georgia
Spring 2004 These are the final results of student research projects for History 3090 in Spring Semester 2004, on local power relations of the Jim Crow South as demonstrated by the Slave Narrative Interviews done by the Federal Writers Project of the Works Progress Administration in the 1930s. Not everyone chose the Slave Narrative assignment, so other projects will address other issues dealing with race relations in the South during the Great Depression.
Student	Project Title
Niel Alden	Sarah H. Hall and the Ex-Slave Narratives: Exploring the Validity of the WPA Georgia Writer's Project
Alexis Andrade	Works Projects Administration: Slave Narratives
Matthew Bennett	WPA Slave Narratives and Race Relations in the Great Depression
Eugene Bledsoe	A Window into Racial Segregation in Atlanta During the Depression
Jenny Boone	Slave Narratives and the Depression-Era South
Jenifer Briggs	1930's Race relation in the American South:Relationship of Grace McCune and Mirriam McCommons
Lauren Britton	Segregation in Birmingham Schools
Bert Browne	Myth and History Intertwined: The History of the WPA Slave Narratives
Bryan Burroughs	Desegregation of the University of Georgia
Will Chappell	J.R. Jones and Race Relations: A Historical Interpretation of Muscogee County
Chad Cowan	John Malcom Patterson: How race defined the career of the Alabama Governor
Andy Cross	A Slave Narrative in the Context of the Great Depression
Becky Dobras	Atlanta Race Riot of 1906: White Supremacy Taken to the Extreme
Beth Dobson	The Ex-Slave Narratives Racial Dynamic
Allison Dunivant	Atlanta Sit-Ins 1960-61
John Embry	Racism and the Great Depression
Adam Evans	The Decline and Fall of Group Violence in the South and Athens, Georgia; Racism, the Ku Klux Klan and John Lee Eberhardt
Michael Flippo	Tulsa Race Riot of 1921
Chad Floyd	A Recollection of the Life and Times of Slaves in the South
Kevin Giesler	He Writes a Sermon that No One Will Hear
Megan Glover	Segregation in Schools During the New Deal in Marietta, Georgia: The Effects of Separate But Equal in The Nineteen Thirties and Beyond
Leah Gray	A Biography of Slave Narrative Interviewer Grace McCune: Athens, Georgia
Kathryn Griggs	Neighbors in Columbus
Doug Harris	Exploring Depression Era Race Relations Through Sadie B. Hornsby; A Federal Writers’ Project Interviewer
Josh Harwell	A Similar Life: A Biography of Grace McCune and A Brief History of Athens, Georgia
Alan Henley	Educational Segregation of Athens in the 1930's
Rachel Hettinger	Slave Narratives through the Lens of the Great Depression
Rebekah Hettinger	Zora Neale Hurston: Spokeswoman for African-American Culture
CeeCee Hickey	Minnie Stonestreet’s WPA Slave Narrative
Jennifer Hollifield	An Unbiased Account of Slave Life
Seth Holm	Influence of Interviewers, the Great Depression, and the New Deal on WPA Slave Narratives
Sumner Holman	"Sitting-Down" to Gain Racial Rights in Savannah
Jessica Huerta	The Effect of Slave Narratives
Keidre Hull	Surviving the New Slavery: How Greene County Blacks Struggled for Autonomy During the Development of the New South Social Order
Meredith Hunter	The Life & Times Of Mattie B. Roberts
Daniel Jackson	Understanding History with the Slave Narrative Collection
Justin Jacobs	African American Women of Atlanta
Lucye Jordan	Desegregation in Georgia School Systems
Kevin Kadzis	The Atlanta Riot of 1906
Melvina Kemp	The Segregated School System in Atlanta: An Agent of Social Control and Black Oppression
Sarah Kenworthy	The Jim Crow South: Racial Etiquette and its Implications in the Slave Narratives
Trey Lopez	An Exodus
Jessica Lund	Pieces of the Past: The Effects of Race Relations on the WPA Slave Narratives
Daniel McDonald	Slavery as Seen Through The Eyes of the Federal Writer’s Project
Jessica Mixson	Ruth H. Sanford, Susan Matthews, and the Slave Interviews of the 1930s
Michael O'Sullivan	"Slave Narrative" writer Edwin Driskell
Stephanie Peterson	How the Laurens County Area Dealt with Segregation from the 1930s to the1950s
Michael Petit	Through the Eyes of an African American WPA Interviewer
Reed Rogers	A study on the impact of race and class in Milledgeville, Georgia during the 1930’s
Julie Rushkewicz	Independent, Educated, and Ahead of Her Time
Kate Shepard	Ruby Lorraine Radford and the Ex-Slave Narratives
Tracy Shy	Desegregation and the Uprising of Private Schools in Atlanta, Georgia
Matt Shirley	The Atlanta Black Crackers
Dorothee Soler	Ex-Slaves Narratives: interviewer-interviewee, a special relationship
Karl Stein	Lynching as a Method of Social Control in the Jim Crow South
Sarah Sweeley	Geneva Tonsill and the WPA Slave Narratives
Katherine Taylor	Cut it Down
Heather Thayer	Women of the Great Depression
Brian Tomkins	Louise Oliphant's Interview of Leah Garrett
Julia Tyndall	The Slave Narratives: A Look at the Relationship between the Writer’s and Their Subjects
Michael Walton	The Writers behind the WPA Slave Narratives: Geneva Tonsill
Chris Wascom	First Steps Towards Integration
Anthony White	The Spectrums of History in Washington-Wilkes Georgia
Philip White	Edwin Driskell, Depression, and Race Relations During New Deal America
Hillary Wilson	The Many Victims of Southern White Male Propaganda: As seen through the eyes of a Federal Writer from Georgia
Fall 2003 These are the final results of student research projects for History 3090 in Fall Semester 2003, on local reaction to adoption of the Georgia state flag in 1956.
Student	Project Title
Andrew Blascovich	The 1956 State Flag Change and Subsequent Integration In Macon, Georgia
Shannon Buff	Walker County and Chickamauga: A Silent Defense for Segregation
Jennifer Caudill	Past and Present Positions Surrounding Southern Identity
Jen Colatosti	Preserving a Way of Life: Atlanta and the State Flag Change of 1956
Meghan Conley	Lee County and The 1956 Flag Change
Megan Cooper	1956 Flag Change: A Year of Controversy
Westray Day	Georgia, Atlanta, and the South during the 1956 flag change
Shalamar Dunn	Attitudes toward Desegregation
Leigh Farnell	Relations in Jacksonville, Florida: 1950-1960
Laura Henry	Preservation at All Costs
Isaac Howard	The Resistance of the South
Nathan Marsh	The Georgia State Flag of 1956
Jennifer Meazell	Racist Roswell
Callie Melton	Deflagregation
Matthew Peal	A Banner of Hate
Jeremy Sellers	Code of Silence: the Apparent Non-reaction of the Citizens of Savannah to the State Flag Change of 1956
Aprile Steel	Coffee County’s Response to the 1956 Georgia State Flag Change In Its Historical Context
Andrew Turner	The Racial Sentiment of the South during the 1950’s and in particular Fayette Co. Georgia
Matthew Waldrop	How Tifton reacted to the 1956 flag change
John Watson	Brown vs. the Board of Education and the Effect Desegregation had on the South as a Whole, as Well as the Communities of Little Rock, Arkansas and Hyde County, North Carolina
Ariel Wilson	The 1956 Flag and Its Implications
Chuck Worn	1956 Georgia State Flag Change