Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black
...railroads had a single ticket booth with segregated ticket windows was less innocuous than it might seem.11A Florida statute passed in 1907 required "Separate Waiting Rooms and Ticket Windows," The...
Ten Dollars and a Bus Ticket
Ten Dollars and a Bus Ticket: Video and Essay Ten Dollars and a Bus Ticket. A short video by Ben Harmon and Catalina McCormick, 2009. Individuals' experiences in the criminal...
Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
...Files, National Archives, Record Group 60, Class 50, Box 10800, File 50-162-1 (Hereafter abbreviated "DOJ Files, NA, RG 60, Class 50, Box 10800, File 50-162-1"). Unidentified lumberman in the Jackson...
The Pursuit of Health: Colonialism and Hookworm Eradication in Puerto Rico
...letters are the only correspondence from an ordinary Puerto Rican found in the Colección Ashford (Ashford Collection) at the University of Puerto Rico. The handwriting, spelling, and grammar are unclear,...
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
...of southern deindustrialization and Asian labor markets. Who makes what where, when, and why depends on a chase around the globe for cheap labor that involves overlapping waves of industrialization...
Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters
...During the Depression few people were willing to spring for the price of tickets, and drive-ins slowly appeared on the outskirts of other urban areas, such as Galveston, Texas, Los...
Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...other songs of abandonment in her repertoire. Alberta Bradford and Becky Elzy Alberta Bradford and Becky Elzy, Avery Island, Louisiana, ca. 1933. Photo courtesy of E. A. McIlhenny Enterprises, Inc....
The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape
...Southern history. See Steven Hahn, The Roots of Southern Populism: Yeoman Farmers and the Transformation of the Georgia Upcountry, 1850-1890 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985) for an interpretation that stresses...
Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement
...previously all-white schools, although many small, rural school districts in eastern North Carolina resisted until a court order required the admission of a token number of Black children in previously...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...identified by the US Census Bureau. CDP's lack separate municipal governments. Osceola County is one of four counties located in the Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford Metropolitan Statistical Area or "Greater Orlando." According to...