Dr. James Pashen, Professor of Southern History at the University of Virginia, was on his way to Miami to make the speech of his career. Having had his book, Poor White Trash, published the year before, this speech at the 1924 convention of the American Historian Association would open doors he could have never imagined ten years earlier. But as he enjoyed breakfast with a colleague, a glance out of the train window changed his life. That one glance...