The Role of Ideas in the Civil Rights South

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments The papers in this volume began as part of the annual Porter L. Fortune, Jr. History Symposium at the University of Mississippi. Thanks go to my colleagues in the History Department, especially Robert Haws, chairman of the department, for working to make that event a success, and my colleagues at the Center for the Study of Southern Culture. Thanks as well to department secretaries Betty Harness and Michelle Palmertree, and to the Southern Studies graduate student, Molly McGehee, who helped coordinate travel and publicity for the symposium. My greatest thanks are to the scholars who attended that symposium. Along with those who contributed essays, participants included Thomas Borstelman, Walter Jackson, Charles Payne, Daryl Scott, and Gerald Smith. Enhancing discussions were civil rights participants Lawrence Guyot and Ed King, and many students, scholars and visitors to campus. Ralph Luker was not at the symposium, but his paper fits perfectly in this volume. My thanks to Charles Marsh for suggesting that the paper be included. The Mississippi Humanities Council helped fund the symposium, as did an endowment honoring Porter L. Fortune, Jr., a former chancellor at the University of Mississippi. Helping prepare this volume were Molly McGehee, Molly Campbell, and VanessaBliss in the Southern Studies program, Antoine Alexander in the History Department, Susan Ditto, and friends at the University Press of Mississippi. vn This page intentionally left blank ...