LIBRARIES AND ARCHIVES.

The Southern Labor Archives of the Special Collections Department, William Russell Pullen Library, Georgia State University, is pleased to announce that the Uprising of '34 Collection is processed and open for research. This collection consists of materials created and used in the production of an award-winning 1995 documentary film about the largest single-industry strike in U.S. history, the General Textile Strike of 1934. Videotaped oral interviews with more than two hundred people describing events in Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina comprise the heart of the Uprising of '34 Collection. Other series include interview transcripts, archival footage, production masters and footage, and supporting documentation. Veterans of the 1934 strike and their descendants--black, white, mill worker, manager, union, and non-union--talk about mill village life, work conditions, and contemporary southern culture, as well as the strike itself. For additional information contact Pam Hackbart-Dean, Southern Labor Archives, Special Collections Department, Pullen Library, Georgia State University, 100 Decatur Street, SE, Atlanta, Georgia 30303-3202; [phone]; email [e-mail].

The Filson Historical Society reports the acquisition and cataloging of the Bodley family papers and the Stratton Hammon collection, which are fully available to researchers. These two collections, focusing on frontier and antebellum Kentucky and twentieth-century Louisville architecture, respectively, are joined by a number of smaller collections that have been cataloged and are open for research. Included among these collections are papers of the Cox-Tucker family regarding the Mexican War, along with the Winn-Cook family papers, primarily consisting of letters written by two members of the U.S. Third Kentucky Cavalry. Also cataloged were letters of Henry Clay, Henry Clay Jr., Augustus Willson, Samuel Plato, Colonel John F. Hamtramck, and additional papers of General John H. Hammond. Also, photographs of various Civil War officers, Louisville views, Kentucky scenes, individuals, and families were added to the collection.

J. Morgan Kousser, Professor of History and Social Science at the California Institute of Technology, has been named co-winner of the following awards for his book, Colorblind Injustice: Minority Voting Rights and the Undoing of the Second Reconstruction (Chapel Hill, 1999): the Lillian Smith Book Award from the Southern Regional Council (1999), and the Ralph J. Bunche Award of the American Political Science Association (2000). In the words of the Southern Regional Council, "Since 1968, the Lillian Smith Book Awards have been presented each year to recognize and encourage outstanding writing about the American South. The Lillian Smith Book Awards honor those authors who, through their writing, carry on Smith's legacy of elucidating the condition of racial and social inequity and proposing a vision of justice and human understanding." The Bunche Award recognizes "the best scholarly work in political science published in the previous year which explores the phenomenon of ethnic and cultural pluralism."

John David Smith of North Carolina State University received the Mayflower Society Award for Nonfiction for 2000 for his book Black Judas: William Hannibal Thomas and "The American Negro" (Athens, Ga., 2000).