Introduction : The American South / James C. Klotter -- The Lost Cause legend about Winnie Davis, "The Daughter of the Confederacy" / Cita Cook -- Black Zack and Uncle Amon / Paul K. Conkin -- Asa Candler : old southerner in the New South / Kathryn W. Kemp -- Alfred Holt Stone : conservative racial thought in the New South / John David Smith -- Hester Calvert : farm wife / Rebecca Sharpless -- Ma Rainey : mother of the blues / S. Spencer Davis -- Dizzy Dean : baseball's quintessential Southerner / William J. Marshall -- Toward a new social order in Dixie : Eleanor Copenhaver Anderson and the Industrial Department of the National Board YWCA / Margaret Ripley Wolfe -- Harlan Sanders : the man who would be colonel / John Ed Pearce -- Blanche Terry and the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan / Christopher Waldrep -- Ralph David Abernathy and the Civil Rights Movement / Gerald L. Smith -- Bill Henry Terry Jr .: an African American's journey from Alabama to Vietnam and back / David L. Anderson