Vale of Amusements: Modernity, Technology, and Atlanta's Ponce de Leon Park, 1870–1920
...attracting both white and black Atlantans and influencing the repeal of Atlanta's 1885 prohibition law.15Goodson, 59–60. Atlanta entrepreneurs often blurred the line between entertainment and transportation in their financial endeavors....
New Pasts: Historicizing Immigration, Race, and Place in the South
...this degree of variation and change. Memphis: Minority Politics and Class Divisions Jeffrey Rohan, National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel, Memphis, Tennessee, August 14, 2010. The contemporary racial...
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...
Negotiating Gender Lines: Women's Movement across Atlanta Mosques
...of a substantial number of prosperous black Atlantans, we might imagine that African American Muslims are more likely to live in Atlanta than in Chicago in the same neighborhoods or...
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...
Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters
...cities, Atlanta, along with Tampa, Miami-Dade, and Memphis, still boasts a drive-in within city limits, something few US cities can claim. Located in southeast Atlanta on Moreland Avenue, two miles...
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...
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...