Foster Dickson: Editor of Memoirs of Integration and After
Foster Dickson is a writer, editor and teacher in Montgomery, Alabama. He is the author of three books: Kindling Not Yet Split (Court Street Press, 2002), I Just Make People Up: Ramblings with Clark Walker (NewSouth Books, 2009), and The Life and Poetry of John Beecher (Edwin Mellen Press, 2009), and the general editor of Treasuring Alabama's Black Belt (AUM/AHF, 2009).
The book has been contracted by McFarland & Company, Publishers!
The book project with current prospective title, Children of the Changing South, and the prospective subtitle, "Memoirs of Integration and After," is a full-length edited collection that is now under contract with academic publisher McFarland & Company. The manuscript focuses on the memories of people who grew up in the South from the mid 1960s through the early 1990s, at the end of or after the Civil Rights movement's major events and changes had occurred.
Current contributors include: Jim Grimsley, Anne Gray Brown, Ravi Howard, Becky McLaughlin, Glenis Redmond, Kathleen Rooney, Tricia Hoskins, Dawne Shand, Ray Morton, Lynn Watson, Kyes Stevens, Ashley Day, Stephanie Powell Watts, Leslie Haynsworth, Camika Spencer, Georgene Bess Montgomery, Jacqueline Wheelock, and Leantin Brooks. The afterword was contributed by David Molina of the William Winter Institute on Racial Reconciliation at the University of Mississippi.
Foster Dickson is a writer, editor and teacher in Montgomery, Alabama. He is the author of three books: Kindling Not Yet Split (Court Street Press, 2002), I Just Make People Up: Ramblings with Clark Walker (NewSouth Books, 2009), and The Life and Poetry of John Beecher (Edwin Mellen Press, 2009), and the general editor of Treasuring Alabama's Black Belt (AUM/AHF, 2009).
The book has been contracted by McFarland & Company, Publishers!
The book project with current prospective title, Children of the Changing South, and the prospective subtitle, "Memoirs of Integration and After," is a full-length edited collection that is now under contract with academic publisher McFarland & Company. The manuscript focuses on the memories of people who grew up in the South from the mid 1960s through the early 1990s, at the end of or after the Civil Rights movement's major events and changes had occurred.
Current contributors include: Jim Grimsley, Anne Gray Brown, Ravi Howard, Becky McLaughlin, Glenis Redmond, Kathleen Rooney, Tricia Hoskins, Dawne Shand, Ray Morton, Lynn Watson, Kyes Stevens, Ashley Day, Stephanie Powell Watts, Leslie Haynsworth, Camika Spencer, Georgene Bess Montgomery, Jacqueline Wheelock, and Leantin Brooks. The afterword was contributed by David Molina of the William Winter Institute on Racial Reconciliation at the University of Mississippi.