Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
Introduction Location of Lockhart, Alabama, 2012. On a warm spring day in 1904, former governor of Maryland and lumberman E. E. Jackson, along with several associates, traveled to Alabama to...
Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the US South, 1997–2007
...increasing number of Atlanta-based artists — including Ludacris, T.I., Bonecrusher, Gucci Man, and Young Jeezy — find national audiences, but the exposure of stylistic subgenres associated with Atlanta far outstripped...
Whatwuzit?: The 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics Reconsidered
...Atlanta was voted number two in Fortune's 1995 'Best Cities for Business' list, the city also ranks number two in the nation in income disparity between blacks and whites, number...
Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters
...Atlanta, Georgia At one time, Atlanta offered the Piedmont, Thunderbird, Bankhead, Stewart, Fulton Boulevard, Bolton, and Starlight drive-ins. Now only the Starlight remains, one of seven operational Georgia drive-ins. Among...
Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement
...High School for the Sibley Commission's hearing on school desegregation, Atlanta, Georgia, March 23, 1960. Photograph by unknown creator. Originally published in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Courtesy of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution...
Atlanta's Charis Books and More: Histories of a Feminist Space
Introduction Atlanta's feminist bookstore, Charis Books and More, founded in November 1974, remains a central fixture of Atlanta's Little Five Points, a revitalized inner-city business district that spills over into...
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...
Counterblast: How the Atlanta Temple Bombing Strengthened the Civil Rights Cause
Atlanta Temple Bombing On the morning of Sunday, October 12, 1958, shortly after 3:30 a.m., an explosion ripped through the Reform Temple on Peachtree Street in Atlanta. Although no one...
"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...meeting place of men famous in Georgia affairs." Notable patrons included politician and former Confederate general Robert Toombs; former Atlanta mayor Captain J.W. English; and Atlanta Constitution editors Henry Grady...
African American Community Building in Atlanta: A Guide to the Study of Race in America
...of the Appalachian chain supports the geographical and economic framework within which race can fruitfully be studied. Bi-racial and Bi-ethnic Atlanta Until recent decades, Atlanta's population, like that of the...