“And the art was in every corner and wall... a Mural of the Century of Progress in Colombia South America is rich in detail, painted by a student of the Fine Arts Academy of Chicago named Santiago Martinez; a name to remember.” ArtAmericaRememberNamesRichProgressCenturyStudentsWallFineSouthDetailsCornersChicagoAcademyFine ArtsColombiaSouth AmericaMuralSantiago Author:Santiago Martinez Delgado
“For two centuries, the South has feared a takeover by blacks or the feds. In Obama, they have both.” TwoCenturySouthFedsTakeovers Author:Maureen Dowd
“Truman left in the middle of an unpopular war, a war of choice. Truman didn't have to go into South Korea. And he was reviled and ridiculed for the stalemate that resulted. Now, he's seen as one of the great presidents of the 20th century.” WarChoicesLeftPresidentMiddleCenturySouth20th CenturyKoreaTrumanSouth KoreaGreat PresidentsStalemate Author:Charles Krauthammer
“The legacy of Mandela is to have brought the country together... South Africa can be one of the success stories of the 21st century.” CountryStoriesTogetherCenturySouthLegacySouth Africa21st CenturySuccess Stories Author:David Cameron
“I felt no obligation to bow to any 21st Century political correctness. What I did feel an obligation to do was to take the 21stCentury viewers and physically transport them back to the ante bellum South in 1858, in Mississippi, and have them look at America for what it was back then. And I wanted it to be shocking.” FeelsLooksWantedAmericaPoliticalFeltCenturySouthObligationBows21st CenturyViewersShockingPolitical CorrectnessTransportMississippiCorrectness Author:Quentin Tarantino
“At the beginning of the 20th century, before the migration began, 90 percent of all African-Americans were living in the South. By the end of the Great Migration, nearly half of them were living outside the South in the great cities of the North and West. So when this migration began, you had a really small number of people who were living in the North and they were surviving as porters or domestics or preachers - some had risen to levels of professional jobs - but they were, in some ways, protected because they were so small.” PeopleWayEndsJobsLevelsNumbersCitiesHalfCenturyPercentWestSouthAfrican AmericanProtectedPreacher20th CenturySurvivingRisenMigrationGreat CitiesSmall Numbers Author:Isabel Wilkerson
“For nearly a century, the South made itself believe that Negroes and white people were really communicating. So convinced of this were the white Southerners that they almost made the nation believe that they, and only they, knew the mind of the Southern Negro.” PeopleMindBelieveMadeNationsWhiteCenturySouthCommunicateConvincedSouthernSoutherner Author:Benjamin E. Mays
“Living in Montgomery, I've been antagonized by the emergence of a narrative about our history that I believe is quite false and misleading, and actually dangerous. And the narrative that emerges when you spend time in the South - places likes Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana - is that we have always been a noble, wonderful, glorious region of the country, with wonderful, noble, glorious people doing wonderful, noble, glorious things. And there's great pride in the Alabamians of the nineteenth century.” PeopleBelieveCountryI BelieveWonderfulCenturyDangerousPrideSouthNobleLikesNarrativeGloriousRegionsEnd TimesSpend TimeMisleadGeorgiaNineteenth CenturyMississippiEmergenceLouisianaAlabamaMontgomery Author:Bryan Stevenson
“The landscape in Montgomery and in the South is just saturated with imagery. Markers are everywhere. There's a marker for the first Confederate post office, there's a marker for a ball that Robert E. Lee hosted, there's a marker for where Jefferson Davis had a meeting. We love reminding people about all that was going on in the mid-nineteenth century.” PeopleFirstsCenturyOfficeBallsMeetingsSouthPostsLandscapeImageryNineteenth CenturyRemindingSaturatedConfederateMarkersPost OfficeMontgomery Author:Bryan Stevenson