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
...dogs. At least once, Gallagher gave two black workers metal pipes and coerced them at gunpoint to fight. He broke the fight up only after the two men bloodied one...
Whatwuzit?: The 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics Reconsidered
...Maps of Olympic Ring in downtown Atlanta, 1996 Atlanta Games The Centennial Summer Olympic Games opened on the evening of Friday, July 19, 1996, at Atlanta's Centennial Olympic Stadium (now...
The Pursuit of Health: Colonialism and Hookworm Eradication in Puerto Rico
...Archive Center, Rockefeller Foundation. Bottom, Dispensary scene, teaching by lecture and demonstration, Dr. Caldwell. Courtesy of the 100 Years: The Rockefeller Foundation website, Rockefeller Archive Center, Rockefeller Foundation. As the impetus for a...
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
...quest for cheap labor and new sources of "nimble-fingered" women laborers to work the looms and ply needles in the increasingly global textile and garment trades. Actions by US industrialists...
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...
Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters
...values closed many drive-ins.38Scott Henry, "Drive-in revival: Hipsters and boomers alike rediscover the joy of watching a movie outdoors." Creative Loafing [Atlanta, GA], 26 June 2002 [http://clatl.com/atlanta/drive-in-revival/Content?oid=1237455]. The Starlight Six...
Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black
...accommodations that he had seen in Chattanooga, Atlanta, Macon, and elsewhere.1"A Step Backward," Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, September 19, 1891, 98. Built and maintained by the railroads, colored waiting rooms...
African American Community Building in Atlanta: A Guide to the Study of Race in America
...American community in Atlanta during the twentieth century. From the perspective of a specific community in a particular place at a critical period, studying race becomes more manageable and gains...
An Unlikely Bohemia: Athens, Georgia, in Reagan's America
...Effects.10Karen Moline, "Pylon: From Athens, GA: New Sounds of the Old South," New York Rocker, March 1981, 15–17; Vic Varney, "'Nineteen Hours from New York': Small Town Makes Good," New...