I currently teach a contemporary issues course at a local senior center here in Baltimore. The racial make up is 100% white. Do you have any suggestions articles that I could use in my class that may help enlighten us, without insulting those of color, especially those who are African-American, as to what it is like to be 'non-white'? Soon, I will be teaching a similar course through the Community College of Baltimore County and wish to use some of the material, if appropriate, for this topic there.

I wish to help bridge the gap between white and black in the United States. I wish to make inter-racial white and black couples not only 'acceptable' in our society, but looked upon without any prejudices.

Can you help?

With regards, your 'white allie'

There is a speech attributed to Davy Crockett, Not Yours To Give that can be found all over the internet. It appears to have first surfaced and circulated (as legit) in print in the early 60s among right wing tax protest groups. It even found its way into the wikipedia entry on Davy Crockett and from there links to Texas Congressman Ron Paul's government website as a source, saying that it was Originally published in "The Life of Colonel David Crockett," by Edward Sylvester Ellis.

http://www.house.gov/paul/nytg.htm

It states Crockett was so fond of this speech he had 100s of copies printed up, yet in my preliminary research I can find no record of it in the Register of Debates of the period at the Congressional Record website:

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lwrd.html

It apparently does not come from the only book Crockett co-authored, (he was functionally illiterate until late in his life and could only read and write marginally even then), but rather from this book, The Life of Colonel David Crockett, by Edward Sylvester Ellis, a man born long after Crockett died at the Alamo and who wrote mostly "dime novels" of the day:

http://www.ulib.niu.edu/badndp/ellis_edward.html

Like this one:

http://www.bigredhair.com/steamman/index.html

I suspect this alleged "Crockett speech" is pure fiction. Can you verify it, or are my suspicions correct?

Thank you, Rad Refs.

UPDATE 9/23/2009:
We closed comments on this question because it became a flame/spam magnet.

Hello,

I'm looking for information on the feelings and opinions of Iraqis, especially around support or non-support of coalition troops, supporting attacks on coalition troops, how many people feel their lives have improved since the invasion, etc.

More current information is of course better, but 1-2 year old information would be useful as well.

I know Iraqi support for the occupying forces is low, but I need quotable sources and more exact figures.

Thanks.

I'm a library student at the UW-Madison, and I am trying to find local Madison music from the 1960s. It's for a project where we are trying to use "alternative" sources to recreate what life would have been like for students on campus during that decade, with all the political activity, anti-Vietnam war protests, campus bombings, draft dodging, student socialist groups, etc that was going on at the time. I thought music would be a great "alternative" source relative to traditional library materials, only I can't seem to find any music now! I do not want mainstream music, but rather local (to WI but preferably Madison) musicians, regardless of genre but activist in nature.
Can you please help??

In a column about rape in the American South, the writer states that in the 19th century, the NC Supreme Court decided that no white man could be convicted of fornication with a slave woman.

Where/how can I find a copy of that case and the exact wording of that decision?