With his first three novels, William Styron established himself as a distinctly southern novelist. Lie Down in Darkness (1951) is a family saga in the Faulknerian mode, presenting a family burdened by its eroding belief in its history and its… Read More ›
The early post–Civil War promise of equal protection and increased civil rights for African Americans was eviscerated by decades of Jim Crow laws, culminating in the 1896 Supreme Court decision in Plessy v. Ferguson that sanctioned legalized racial segregation. This… Read More ›
The Civil Rights movement of the 1950s, 1960s, and early 1970s has been recognized globally as the most transformative social movement of twentieth-century America. Likewise, the Black Power movement that grew out of it in the 1960s is also viewed… Read More ›
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