Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism
...is the first section of "Three Dreams," which you have on your handout: I was dreaming of Dayton, Ohio, my grade school, etc. Behind the school the playground extended only...
The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance
...on them. The Confederate headstones have either "CSA" (Confederate States of America) or "Confederate" on them. Advertisement for the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC, sculpted from Tate, Georgia, marble, National Geographic 53,...
Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
...direction into the woods. After hearing "some Irish men had run away before we came," said Bennie Graubert, "about twelve of us ran away too. . . . On the...
Sonic Zora in Florida
...mule tale retold breaks by the fourth verse onto another plane, away from the arrival of the "blue-eyed baby," the product of probable betrayal and potential racialized sexual violation, away...
Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black
...which he realized, "I could never adjust to the separate waiting rooms, separate eating places, separate rest rooms, partly because the separate was always unequal, and partly because the very...
From Arkansas with Love: Evangelical Crisis Management and Southern (White) Gospel Music
...53. Front cover of Crowning Day (Dayton, VA: Ruebush-Kieffer, 1900). Courtesy of Douglas Harrison. At the end of the nineteenth century and into the first three decades of the twentieth...
Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement
...Albert Boutwell—who later as a "moderate" mayoral candidate defeated "Bull" Connor—and Birmingham corporate attorney Forney Johnston. While Wallace began as a white liberal before shifting his politics to become governor,...
The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape
...in the landscape already underway on the Shore and spawning hosts of others. Railroad cars carried Northward increasing quantities of Eastern Shore lumber, seafood, and farm produce and returned with...
Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...topical ballads and crossover dance numbers such as "Little Liza Jane." While anglophone black string band and folk blues traditions have not thrived in south Louisiana, all evidence indicates that...
Interstate Road Project, Single-State History: Tammy Ingram's Look at the Dixie Highway
...travel. Good Roads activists began to lobby for a federally-funded highway system, and, after 1914, planning for the Dixie Highway commenced. The idea for the highway, Ingram notes, came from...