Issue of the Week

Each week LocalVoter combs the web for information to help provide a deeper understanding of a key issue affecting the country and the world.

Below are a list of links related to our issue of the week.  The links are articles from newspapers, magazines, and opinion columns along with a set of recommended books.

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To see a list of previous "Issues of the Week" visit our Issue of the Week archive.

On June 19, 1865, Black slaves in Texas first received news of the Emancipation proclamation from Union troops arriving in Galveston.  The day has come to be celebrated as 'Juneteenth.'

In celebration of Juneteenth, LocalVoter has listed a number of links describing some of the progress and challenges facing the New South as it struggles to place its complex heritage into a modern perspective.

Online Resources

Eugene Meyer, Washington Post, For a Civil War Service, A Censored Speech

Arlo Wagner, Washington Times, 300 Honor Confederacy

Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star Telegram, Indivisible indeed, so ignore this bunch

Mark Potok, Southern Poverty Law Center, Of Hate and Heritage

David Boaz, The Cato Institute, Don't Put Slavery in the Flag

Atlanta Constitution-Journal, Court OKs Firing over Confederate Flag?

Duncan Campbell, The Guardian, Neo-confederates want out of the U.S.

Jay Reeves, Associated Press, Southern Discomfort

Paul Greenburg, TownHall.com, Frankly, My Dear

Satire

The Onion, South Postpones Rising Again for Yet Another Year

Books (with links to amazon.com)

Richard Rubin, Confederacy of Silence: A True Tale of the New Old South

V.S. Naipaul, A Turn in the South

Derrick Bell, The Faces at the Bottom of the Well