Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black
...the conditions in these new spaces. "The negro-waiting room is a dirty miserable place, with here or there a broken chair and [a] few miserable benches," wrote Scarborough of the...
Brown, Black, and White in Texas
...African American populations in roughly equal numbers. Reflecting this demography, Texas maintained a "dual Jim Crow system" (5) which enforced discrimination against both populations through a hodge-podge of laws and...
Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
...grandstand of 1859, historic images of race track grandstands were investigated, and distinctive characteristics borrowed. The 1870 image of the grandstand at Long Branch, Monmouth County, New Jersey, shows some...
No Country for Old Hippies: Jason Mellard's Progressive Country
...Texas, Texas Monthly, November 1990. Cover. Mellard's interpretations of films and television shows provide nuance to the history of Texas iconography that sometimes goes missing in his close readings of...
The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape
...woman in that county.60Brooks Miles Barnes, The Gallows on the Marsh: Crime and Punishment on the Chesapeake, 1906 (Eastville, Va.: Hickory House, forthcoming). African-American migration onto the Eastern Shore picked...
The Black Civil Rights Movement on the Border
Review Lawrence Aaron Nixon, born in Marshall, Texas, in 1883—as Will Guzmán chronicles in Civil Rights in the Texas Borderlands—grew to manhood at a time when whites in the Lone...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...and greater fluctuations of net migration. Known as "the revolving-door migration," during this period Puerto Ricans migrated to the mainland, but returned to the island as well.39Korrol, From Colonia to...
Low-Wage Legacies, Race, and the Golden Chicken in Mississippi: Where Contemporary Immigration Meets African American Labor History
...Merle Barber, c/o Mississippi Poultry Workers' Union, Rt. 2, Box 11, Forest, Miss.40"Delta Ministry Report," May 1972, Charles Horwitz Papers, Tougaloo College Civil Rights Collection, T/014, Mississippi Department of Archives...
Academic Capitalism and Regional Planning: A Review of Shadows of a Sunbelt City
...University Campus and Vicinity, University of Texas, Austin, Texas, 1919. Map by unknown creator. Courtesy of the University of Texas Libraries, www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/ut_austin_historical_maps.html. Central to Austin’s growth, the University of Texas...
Sài Gòn to Nashville: A Refugee Journey
...2020, as well as stories from March 2025 told by his younger sister, Đỗ Phương Anh Thư. My grandmother, Lê Thị Kim Hoa, and grandfather, Đỗ Phương Anh. Circa 1960...