Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement
...In Virginia, both of its strategy commissions were named for their prominent businessmen chairs. The strategy groups issued recommendations in written reports explaining the imperatives for segregation, the rationale for...
Low-Wage Legacies, Race, and the Golden Chicken in Mississippi: Where Contemporary Immigration Meets African American Labor History
...recounts the story of how he came to Mississippi: Mississippi . . . I think God put it in my path. I was in Florida picking oranges. One afternoon I...
Going South, Coming North: Migration and Union Organizing in Morristown, Tennessee
...They’re here and I don’t blame them. I’d come across the border every chance I got whether I was legal. If I was illegal that’s just fine too, I’d still...
Taming Southern Waters: Christopher J. Manganiello’s Southern Water, Southern Power
...ways in which "decisions informed by energy needs and water insecurity influenced physical and political landscapes," (20) and, at its core, a history of "how private corporations, public institutions, and...
All Roads Led from Rome: Facing the History of Cherokee Expulsion
...from Georgia in June, the last detachment of Cherokees left the Tennessee camps in November. Images of grieving Natives stumbling westward seized the popular imagination, throwing into shadow the record...
The Color of Democracy: A Japanese Public Health Official’s Reconnaissance Trip to the US South
...rapid increase in population in postwar Japan. They feared that population pressure and economic instability could once again push the nation into aggressive expansionism, possibly resulting in another war. Advancing...
Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...Association Inc. is a Texas Corporation filed on September 2, 1975. The company's filing status is listed as Franchise Tax Involuntarily Ended and its File Number is 0036646201. The Registered...
"Within Thy Circling Pow'r I Stand": Immersive Video from Sacred Harp's Hollow Square
...in an area long central to the geography of what is now an international music culture with roots in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Florida, and Texas.4On Sacred Harp's shifting geography, see...
Before Tuskegee: Public Health and Venereal Disease in Hot Springs, Arkansas
...in 1921 followed upon extensive anti-venereal initiatives carried out by the U.S. military during World War I. Closing in the 1940s, the clinic marked a transition in the federal government's...
"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...in Indiana, Mississippi, Missouri, and Arkansas, and extended to the Pacific, with some populations in California.13Audubon, Quadrupeds, 125. The opossum—which is remarkably fecund due to its short gestation period and...