Disrupters & Interlopers: James Saxon Childers

The Disrupters & Interlopers series highlights lesser-known individuals from Southern history whose actions, though unpopular or difficult, contributed to changing the old status quo. Writer, editor, journalist, and teacher James Saxon Childers is far from a household name. He was born in Birmingham, Alabama in 1899 and was raised there, then he was educated at Oberlin College and at Oxford as a Rhodes scholar. He returned to Birmingham in 1925 and taught English at the private liberal-arts college Birmingham-Southern until 1942. During that time, he wrote and published three novels,… Read more Disrupters & Interlopers: James Saxon Childers →