Human Tradition in the New South

James C. Klotter is the State Historian of Kentucky and professor of history at Georgetown College. He is the author of several books including Kentucky Justice, Southern Honor, and American Manhood and Kentucky: Portrait in Paradox 1900–1950 and the editor of The Human Tradition in the Old South.

Deep down most southerners are story tellers. Their narratives unite them across boundaries of race, age, gender, class, and culture. Thought of that way, The Human Tradition in the New South is the most southern kind of book because it allows some gifted story tellers to describe some long forgotten people.

• IntroductionChapter 1: The Lost Cause Legend About Winnie Davis, "The Daughter of the Confederacy"Chapter 2: Black Zack and Uncle AmonChapter 3: Asa Candler: Old Southerner in the New SouthChapter 4: Alfred Holt Stone: Conservative Racial Thought in the New SouthChapter 5: Hester Calvert: Farm WifeChapter 6: Ma Rainey: Mother of the BluesChapter 7: Dizzy Dean: Baseball's Quintessential SouthernerChapter 8: Toward a New Social Order in Dixie: Eleanor Copenhaver Anderson and the Industrial Department of the National Board YWCAChapter 9: Harlan Sanders: The Man Who Would be ColonelChapter 10: Blanche Terry and the White Knights of the Ku Klux KlanChapter 11: Ralph David Abernathy and the Civil Rights MovementChapter 12: Bill Henry Terry, Jr.: An African American's Journey from Alabama to Vietnam and Back