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U.S. South, Race Relations
Professor
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1970
Office: HSSB 3251 Hours:
Fax: (805) 893-8795
Email: charris185@cox.net
Research and Teaching Interests- U.S. History
- History of the U.S. South
- U.S. Race Relations
- 19th Century U.S. Political History
Current Projects- Black Voters In White Birmingham, 1871-1884
- The interplay of race and class in an emerging industrial center, focusing on black political intiatives and the responses blacks encountered
- Black Education in Birmingham
- Black efforts to obtain resources for black education and the varying levels of discrimination they encountered from different political coalitions
Selected Publications- "Stability and Change in Discrimination against Black Public Schools: Birmingham, Alabama, 1871-1931," Journal of Southern History, 51 (August 1985)
- "Spotlight on State Legislatures," Reviews In American History, 10 (March, 1982)
- Political Power In Birmingham, 1871-1921 (University of Tennessee Press, 1977)
- "Right Fork or Left Fork? The Section-Party Alignments of Southern Democrats in Congress, 1873-1897," Journal of Southern History, 42 (November 1976).
- "Reforms in Government Control of Negroes in Birmingham, Alabama, 1890-1920," Journal of Southern History, 38 (Nov. 1972)
Undergraduate and Graduate Courses- History 17B: The American People (Sectional Crisis through Progressivism)
- History 160A: The American South to 1865
- History 160B: The American South, 1865 to the Present
- History 160P: Proseminar in the History of the American South
- History 201AM: Advanced Historical Literature: America
- History 265A-B: Seminar in American Political and Social History
- History 292B: Foundations of U.S. History, 1846 to 1917
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