Law & Politics

 edited by James W. Ely Jr. and Bradley Bond

 

Volume 10 of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture combines two of the sections from the original edition, adding extensive updates and 53 entirely new articles. In the law section of this volume, 16 longer essays address broad concepts ranging from law schools to family law, from labor relations to school prayer. The 43 topical entries focus on specific legal cases and individuals, including historical legal professionals, parties from landmark cases, and even the fictional character of Atticus Finch, highlighting the roles these individuals have played in shaping the identity of the region.

The politics section includes 34 essays on issues such as Reconstruction, social class and politics, and immigration policy and politics. New essays reflect the changing nature of southern politics, away from the one-party system marked by demagogues to the lively two-party politics now in play in the South. Seventy shorter topical entries cover individual politicians, political thinkers, and activists who have made significant contributions to the shaping of southern politics.

James W. Ely Jr. is Milton R. Underwood Professor of Law and professor of history at Vanderbilt University.

Bradley Bond is associate dean of the graduate school at Northern Illinois University.

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Law

          • Law and Southern Society
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          • Civil Rights Movement

          • Common Law

          • Convict Lease System and Peonage

          • Criminal Justice

          • Criminal Law

          • Family Law

          • Labor Relations and Law

          • Law Schools

          • Lawyer, Image of

          • Massive Resistance

          • Police Forces

          • River Law

          • School Prayer

          • State Sovereignty Commissions

          • States’ Rights Constitutionalism

          • Supreme Court
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  • Black Codes
  • Black, Hugo
  • Brown v. Board of Education
  • Buchanan v. Warley
  • Campbell, John A.
  • Catron, John
  • Daniel, Peter V.
  • Emigrant Agent Laws
  • Ervin, Sam, Jr.
  • Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals
  • Finch, Atticus
  • Foreman, Percy
  • Frank, Leo, Case
  • Greensboro Sit-ins
  • Herndon, Angelo, Case
  • Iredell, James
  • Jaworski, Leon
  • Johnson, Frank M., Jr.
  • Johnson, William
  • Lamar, Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus
  • Little Rock Crisis
  • Marshall, John
  • Morgan, Charles, Jr.
  • Napoleonic Code
  • Parks, Rosa
  • Plessy v. Ferguson
  • Powell, Lewis F.
  • Prather v. Prather
  • Roane, Spencer
  • Robinson, Spottswood W., III
  • Ruffin, Thomas
  • Scopes Trial
  • Scott, Dred
  • Scottsboro Case
  • Slave Codes
  • Slave Patrols
  • Stone, George W.
  • Thomas, Clarence
  • Tucker Family
  • Tuttle, Elbert P.
  • Tutwiler, Julia
  • White, Edward Douglas
  • Wisdom, John Minor

Politics

  • Politics and Ideology
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  • Cold War
  • Congress
  • County Politics
  • Culture Wars
  • Demagogues
  • Democratic Party
  • Dixiecrats
  • Emancipation
  • Foreign Policy
  • Government Administration
  • Ideology, Political
  • Immigration Policy and Politics
  • Jacksonian Democracy
  • Jeffersonian Tradition
  • Legislatures, State
  • National Politics
  • New Deal
  • One-Party Politics
  • Partisan Politics
  • Politician, Image of
  • Populist Party
  • Progressivism
  • Protest Movements
  • Race and Southern Politics
  • Reconstruction
  • Redemption
  • Religion and Southern Politics
  • Republican Party
  • Segregation, Defense of
  • Social Class and Southern Politics
  • Taxing and Spending
  • Violence, Political
  • Voting
  • Women in Southern Politics
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  • All the King’s Men
  • Ames, Jessie Daniel
  • Baker, Ella Jo
  • Baker, Howard, Jr.
  • Barnett, Ross
  • Bilbo, Theodore
  • Boggs, Lindy
  • Bush, George W.
  • Byrd Machine
  • Calhoun, John C.
  • Carter, Jimmy
  • Carter, Lillian
  • Clinton, Bill
  • Crump, E. H.
  • Davis, Jefferson
  • Durr, Virginia
  • Edelman, Marian Wright
  • Faubus, Orval
  • Felton, Rebecca
  • Folsom, James
  • Fulbright, J. William
  • Gingrich, Newt
  • Gore Jr., Al
  • Hamer, Fannie Lou
  • Hampton, Wade, III
  • Hays, Brooks
  • Helms, Jesse
  • Hobby, Oveta Culp
  • Hull, Cordell
  • Jackson, Andrew
  • Jackson, Jesse
  • Jefferson, Thomas
  • Johnson, Andrew
  • Johnson, Lady Bird
  • Johnson, Lyndon B.
  • Jordan, Barbara
  • Kefauver, Estes
  • Key Jr., V. O.
  • Lewis, John R.
  • Long, Huey P.
  • Lott, Trent
  • Lynch, John Roy
  • Maddox, Lester
  • Madison, James
  • Monroe, James
  • Moral Majority
  • New South Governors
  • Pepper, Claude
  • Polk, James Knox
  • Prohibition
  • Radical Republicans
  • Randolph, John
  • Rayburn, Sam
  • Richards, Ann
  • Russell, Richard B.
  • Secession
  • Smith, Frank
  • Southern Governors’ Association
  • Southern Strategy
  • Talmadge, Eugene
  • Taylor, John
  • Taylor, Zachary
  • Thurmond, Strom
  • Tillman, Benjamin Ryan
  • Voting Rights Act (1965)
  • Wallace, George
  • Washington, George
  • Watson, Tom
  • Wilson, Woodrow
  • Young, Andrew