Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
...on his father's farm, acquired a modest education, and founded a country store near the town of Delmar. After the Civil War, Jackson established a flooring mill in Baltimore, which...
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
...of two million workers, despite the large numbers of new migrant workers arriving from the countryside. As a result, wages have begun to rise, and companies are leaving the region...
Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black
..."the seats are so arranged that when such people are in there, lady passengers must sit next to them or immediate back of them."5"E. A. Johnson, John Dancy, R. H....
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...That doesn't mean it is a bad area, it just means that area of central florida is not as diverse as others. In most other area of CF, the racial...
Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...On March 26, 1974, approximately eight-thousand spectators filled the University of Southwestern Louisiana's basketball arena, the Blackham Coliseum, to hear some of the most popular artists of the region's dancehall...
The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape
...around the railroad. Local people, not the railroad corporation, developed most of the railroad towns. All were laid out in a more or less regular pattern with their business districts...
Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, and Biotechnology
...but also because of its two-hundred-year history of place-specific decisions, activities, and transformations. The city's geographic location on the bluffs of the Mississippi River near the rich cotton-producing region of...
Taming Southern Waters: Christopher J. Manganiello’s Southern Water, Southern Power
...arrival. The influence of Preston Arkwright, James Duke, and the power companies they built extends well into the postwar era. While Manganiello's analysis of private electric companies is well executed...
Going South, Coming North: Migration and Union Organizing in Morristown, Tennessee
...where a particular industry (or a single employer) could easily be identified. Census data are notoriously soft when it comes to measuring Latino populations, so the specific numbers must be...
Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...scenes it describes should not be misconstrued to suggest that cruising is a thing of the past. Rather, contemporary popular culture, high art, literature, pornography, and vernacular speech continue to...