Read a Zócalo Public Square interview with Sturkey on the occasion of his winning the tenth annual Zócalo Book Prize (also available: an informal Q&A).Watch Sturkey give the 2020 Zócalo Book Prize Lecture, “How Do Oppressed People Build Community?”, followed by a conversation with Yale University historian David Blight (May 2020).On WDAM 7 (Moselle, MS), watch Sturkey discuss the history of the controversial, Confederacy-inspired Mississippi state flag.
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On the podcast Tying It Together, listen to Sturkey discuss with North Carolina reporter Tim Boyum the history behind Confederate statues, what they mean, and how to move forward. At the Hattiesburg American, read Sturkey’s argument that the 1910 Confederate monument at Forrest County Courthouse, Mississippi, pays tribute to “a past that never was”. Listen to Sturkey discuss with WNYC’s Brian Lehrer what to do about Confederate (and non-Confederate) statues and monuments as their, in many cases, outright racist histories are finally acknowledged. At Teaching United States History, read Sturkey’s advice on how to use Hattiesburg in college-level courses. At the Washington Post, read Sturkey on the recent termination of assistant professor Garrett Felber by the University of Mississippi (“Ole Miss”)-a decision, Sturkey argues, that falls within a larger historical pattern of how anti-racist scholars and activists have been treated at Mississippi’s educational institutions. At the Washington Post, read Sturkey on Hiram Revels, a Mississippi minister who in 1870 became the first Black man elected to the United States Senate. In a video interview with Time, watch Sturkey discuss the lessons we can learn today from the experiences of Black political leaders during Reconstruction. At the Atlantic, read Sturkey on how racism entrenched in the historical record has obscured understanding of past Black American lives-and how advances in technology and new scholarly approaches are helping historians rectify the issue. At the Atlantic, read William Sturkey’s remembrance of the life and legacy of civil rights leader Bob Moses. Through it all, Hattiesburg traces the story of the Smith family across multiple generations, from Turner and Mamie Smith, who fled a life of sharecropping to find opportunity in town, to Hammond and Charles Smith, in whose family pharmacy Medgar Evers and his colleagues planned their strategy to give blacks the vote. Sturkey reveals the stories behind those who struggled to uphold their southern “way of life” and those who fought to tear it down-from William Faulkner’s great-grandfather, a Confederate veteran who was the inspiration for the enigmatic character John Sartoris, to black leader Vernon Dahmer, whose killers were the first white men ever convicted of murdering a civil rights activist in Mississippi. He also takes us across town and inside the homes of white Hattiesburgers to show how their lives were shaped by the changing fortunes of the Jim Crow South. 
William Sturkey introduces us to both old-timers and newcomers who arrived in search of economic opportunities promised by the railroads, sawmills, and factories of the New South. There you can see remnants of the shops and churches where, amid the violence and humiliation of segregation, men and women gathered to build a remarkable community.
If you really want to understand Jim Crow-what it was and how African Americans rose up to defeat it-you should start by visiting Mobile Street in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, the heart of the historic black downtown. While depicting the terrors of Jim Crow, he also shows how Hattiesburg’s black residents, forced to forge their own communal institutions, laid the organizational groundwork for the civil rights movement.”- New York Times “Sturkey’s clear-eyed and meticulous book pulls off a delicate balancing act. “An insightful, powerful, and moving book.”-Kevin Boyle, author of Arc of Justice
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