Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
...the Jackson Company forests. The company claimed to base their Alabama operations on principles of forestry conservation and pronounced a commitment to bringing economic development to southern Alabama. Yet when...
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
...as many, 34 percent, of their peers in the North.14Wage differential figures from H. J. Lahne, The Cotton Mill Worker (New York: Farrar and Rinehart, 1944), 165–66. Southern women in...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...Duany notes, there is the presence of "a large number of well-educated professionals and managers, most of whom define themselves as white in the census."31Jorge Duany, "The Orlando Ricans: Overlapping...
The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape
...substantial construction also enables them to be easily and cheaply moved when threatened by the gradual encroachment of the sea, which upon many sections of the coast, effects in the...
Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...those in the songs from this recording session can be found in E. A. McIlhenny's book, Befo' de War Spirituals (1933). McIlhenny was and remains the best-known scion of the...
Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, and Biotechnology
...Grogan and Tony Proscio, Comeback Cities: A Blueprint for Urban Neighborhood Revival (New York: Basic Books, 2000). Local development initiatives for producing and marketing agricultural products, enhancing distribution infrastructure, recruiting...
Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...haven't heard of any trouble so far, though. Percentage-wise it seems to me this area has fully as many gay folk as any area in any of the larger cities...
Going South, Coming North: Migration and Union Organizing in Morristown, Tennessee
...peso devaluation meant many more US factory jobs moved to Mexico where everything from services to utilities to wages had become much cheaper for international investors. Meanwhile, the wages companies...
Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement
...Compulsory Association" by Any or Many Means Six other states—Mississippi, Louisiana, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia—also created strategy groups to block school desegregation. Each group had its own...
Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black
...to whites. Black novelist Charles Chesnutt noted in an article written in 1901, "If there is any choice of location" when it came to positioning such rooms, "the Negro always...