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Dr. Walter Edgar, John T. Edge, Author and Director of the Southern Foodways Alliance, University of Mississippi, Matt and Ted Lee, award winning cookbook authors will debate "What is Real Southern...
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Dr. Walter Edgar, Dr. Daniel Pierce, Author and History Department Chair, University of North Carolina, Asheville, and Dr. Harvey "Hardy" Jackson III, Author and Eminent Scholar in History...
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"Without the South, is there an "America""? Since the early days of our republic, the South has been seen as "the negative" whose characteristics had to be overcome. Late in the 20th century critics...
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Dr. Edgar and his guests will discuss the roots of American Music. Debaters William R. Ferris is a professor of history at UNC-Chapel Hill and an adjunct professor in the Folklore Curriculum. He is...
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Marshall Doswell came to Rock Hill as the Managing Editor of The Evening Herald in 1957. After living in South Carolina for a short time, he was made aware of the racial division and tension that...
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In 1993, the General Assembly added a special advocacy category to the Folk Heritage Award. The first advocacy award was presented to the Catawba Cultural Preservation Project of Rock Hill. An...
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After retiring from Morehouse College, Dr. Mays was the first African American elected to the Atlanta Board of Education. Atlanta schools were desegregated and integrated without incident. In...
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Dr. Benjamin Mays, educator, minister, and scholar, is seen as one of the most significant figures in American history. His influence of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., would cause America to change its...
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Dr. Mays’ relationship with Martin Luther King Jr., is probably the most significant one, and King has admitted that Mays was his influence to become a minister. Since Mays did not have any boys of...
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After graduating from Bates, Benjamin Mays held several teaching positions, teaching math, and then later, English, at South Carolina State College. From 1934-1940, Mays served as dean of religion at...