Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society

Vol. 102, No. 1 Spring 2009

Articles:

Thomas Aiello, The Southern Against the South: The Chicago Conspiracy in the 1932 Negro Southern Baseball League(pp 7-27)

Christopher Manning, "God Didn't Curse Me When He Made Me Black" (pp 28-72)

Masatoma Ayabe, Ku Kluxers in a Coal Mining Community: A Study of the Ku Klux Klan Movement in Williamson County, Illinois, 1923-1926 (pp 73-100)

Reviews: The Legacy of Bronzeville:

Green, Selling the Race: Culture, Community, and Black Chicago, 1940-1960

Semmes, The Regal Theater and Black Culture

Baldwin, Chicago's New Negroes: Modernity, the Great Migration, and the Black Urban Life

Street, Racial Oppression in the Global Metropolis

Black, Bridges of Memory Volume 2: Chicago's Second Generation of Black Migration

                        Reviewed by Christopher Manning

Carr, Our Town: A Heartland Lynching, a Haunted Town, and the Hidden History of White America

                        Reviewed by Jill Ogline

Kioka, Key Command: Ulysses S. Grant's District of Cairo

                        Reviewed by James C. Price

Ress, Governor Edward Coles and the Vote to Forbid Slavery in Illinois

                        Reviewed by Norton N. Newborn

Ruetsche, This Day in Illinois History

                        Reviewed by David Joens

Contributors:

Thomas Aiello is a Visiting Professor at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, specializing in 20th century US intellectual and cultural history, sport history, and African-American history. His work has appeared in Americana: The Journal of American Popular Culture, The McNeese Review, Arkansas Historical Quarterly, Baseball Research Journal, Ozark Historical Review, and Louisiana History, among others. Aiello received his PhD in American History from the University of Arkansas in 2007.

Masatomo Ayabe is a part-time lecturer at Keio University, Tokyo, Japan. He received his PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (history) in 2005. His primary research interests include the Ku Klux Klan, nativism, and vigilantism.

Christopher Manning is an associate professor of history at Loyola University Chicago. He received his PhD from Northwestern University in 2003 with a specialization in 20th Century American history with particular interest in African-American Political and Civil Rights Activism, Black Chicago, Chicago Politics and Civil Rights Activism, and Ethnicity in Chicago. Dr. Manning is the current Book Review Editor for the Journal, and has a forthcoming book on William Dawson.

Cover:

Born in Albany, Georgia, William Levi Dawson was the third African-American elected to the United States Congress and the first from Illinois, serving in the US House of Representatives from 1943 to 1970. Dawson, a Democrat from Chicago, represented Illinois' 1st District, and was the first African-American appointed to a standing congressional committee.

Photo courtesy the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library.

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