The following is the final piece in a two-part guest blog post by James. C. Cobb, author of C. Vann Woodward: America’s Historian, available now from your favorite bookstore. In case you missed it, you can find part 1 here. Though he had managed to get John Hope Franklin on the program at the 1949 meeting in Williamsburg, C. Vann Woodward knew full well that the Southern Historical Association had a long way to go before black members felt truly welcome at its annual gatherings when he assumed the presidency of the organization in 1952. Woodward informed...