BOOKS
Beyond Integration: The Black Freedom Struggle in Escambia County, Florida, 1960-2000 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2016). Awards: 2016 Florida Book Awards, Silver Medal, General Non-Fiction.
Victory After the Fall: The Memories of Civil Rights Activist H. K. Matthews (Mont., AL: NewSouth, 2007).
ACADEMIC ARTICLES
“‘Eliminating the Double Standard of Justice’: Race, Rape, and the Death Penalty in Florida, 1925-60.” Accepted for publication, COMING WINTER 2024.
“‘The Epitome of Black Masculinity:’ Isaac Hayes, Black Moses, and the Long Freedom Struggle.” Journal of American Studies(Cambridge University Press), April 2021, 1-27.
“Economic Civil Rights Activism in Pensacola, Florida,” in Michael Ezra, editor, The Economic Civil Rights Movement (New York: Routledge Press, 2013), 91-103.
“‘More Negotiation and Less Demonstrations’: The NAACP, SCLC, and Racial Conflict in Pensacola, 1970-1978.” Florida Historical Quarterly, 86:1 (Summer 2007), 70-92.
“‘Lord, Have Mercy on My Soul’: Sin, Salvation, and Southern Rock.” Southern Cultures, 9:4 (Winter 2003), 73-87.
“The Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission and Harrison County Beach Integration, 1959-1963: A Cotton-Patch Gestapo?” Journal of Southern History, 68:1 (February 2002), 107-48.
“‘Luther King was a Good Ole Boy’: The Southern Rock Movement and White Male Identity in the Post-Civil Rights South.” Popular Music and Society, 23:2 (Summer 1999), 41-62.
“Confederate Flags, Class Conflict, a Golden Egg, and Castrated Bulls: A Historical Examination of the Ole Miss-Mississippi State Football Rivalry.” Journal of Mississippi History, 59:2 (Summer 1997), 123-140.