The Future is Another Country
“Cocking accepted his job offer by telegram in September of 1937. A year and a half later, Dean Cocking held a staff meeting so controversial that it led to the state revoking UGA’s accreditation and mobs burning the governor in effigy.”
TAHR seeks essays that address impeachment as a way of reclaiming popular sovereignty—an opportunity to leverage the survival-politics of protest and agitation to create a more equal society.
The irony of placing a reminder of disability history in a stairwell does not escape me nor does it surprise me.
The anti-racist protests of the Kerner Commission reveal that if structural racism can be overcome in U.S. democracy, the moral weight of white supremacy must be eradicated otherwise democratic protest will forever be read as a threat.
Maybe, through protest, we can create a government that acts on its own for justice. Maybe, through protest, we can make protest obsolete. Maybe.
It is sad that it took such a tragedy to get our community to realize that our city has such a problem with racism—a problem our community has struggled with for generations. Fortunately, the solution is blossoming before our eyes.
Activists have applied political pressure most effectively on the state and local levels. The fugitive slave crisis of the 1850s provides a historical roadmap for embracing formal politics as a means toward activist ends in the United States.
Handmade posters have been JNU’s defining feature for the past so many years and occupy a pride of place among other modes of resistance.
For fifty years, Middle Tennessee State University’s black students have protested the pervasiveness of the Confederacy on their campus. This is their story, from the past to the present.
Recent efforts to weaken both public education and the Voting Rights Act show that it is time to try again.
