News from Around the South, 2/17 – 2/24

by | Feb 24, 2014 | Archive, Southern Partisan

Virginia: Civil War Soldier’s Letters Return Home DANVILLE, Va. — For 150 years, the letters written by a Confederate soldier — Pvt. Joseph Payne — back home to his wife in the Whitmell community of Pittsylvania County were carefully stored by descendants who...

A Name Under Siege

by | Jan 8, 2014 | Archive, Southern Partisan

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — On the fourth floor of the Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library, on a top shelf just to the left of the map collection, lie more than a dozen books that profile one famous Memphian: Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest. There are the old ones,...

News from Around the South 12/16 to 12/23

by | Dec 23, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan

FLORIDA: School District Will Rename High School Named for KKK leader JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Following a petition drive that garnered more than 160,000 signatures, a Florida school district will rename a high school whose current name commemorates a Confederate...

News from Around the South 7/8 – 7/15

by | Jul 15, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan

Kentucky: Letter from Pastor’s Wife Sparks Furor LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A newspaper column lampooning Southern Baptists, calling the group “the crazy old paranoid uncle of evangelical Christians,” is causing quite a stir in a Kentucky city and put a pastor’s job in...

News from Around the South 5/27 – 6/3

by | Jun 3, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan

Tennessee: Group Challenges Naming of Memphis Parks MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Several plaintiffs have filed suit against the renaming of Confederate-themed city parks in Memphis, asserting only the mayor can change park names. According to The Commercial Appeal, nine...