Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
...archival discoveries at GHS in Savannah, I visited the site of the former racecourse and found it mostly erased and hidden. Bifurcated by highway I-516, half the site is behind...
The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance
...did not know where McPherson's left flank terminated, he had sought to align his four divisions abreast, facing northward. Just prior to battle, Hardee's four divisions formed a crescent from...
Segregation's New Geography: The Atlanta Metro Region, Race, and the Declining Prospects for Upward Mobility
...decreases as neighborhood diversity increases, ultimately creating "racial differences in housing prices" and decreasing property values in diverse neighborhoods.50Dawkins, "Recent Evidence on the Continuing Causes of Black-White Residential Segregation." David...
Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement
...Douglas Martin, "Julius Chambers, a Fighter for Civil Rights, Dies at 76," New York Times, August 6, 2013, https://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/07/us/julius-chambers-a-fighter-for-civil-rights-dies-at-76.html; "Hawkins v. North Carolina State Board of Education," Race Relations Law...
A Well-Tied Knot: Atlanta's Mobility Crisis and the 2012 T-SPLOST Debate
...veneer of metropolitan statistics, segregation by race and class remains a persistent feature of metropolitan life. Clayton County even earned the unhappy distinction of having the single highest rates of...
Crossing Over: Sustainability, New Urbanism, and Gentrification in Austin, Texas
...East Austin, the number of African American residents declined by 3,711 (14.5 percent) from 2000 to 2010.19City of Austin, "District 1 Demographic Profile," http://www.austintexas.gov/sites/ default/files/files/Planning/Demographics/District_1_demographic_profile_2000_2010.pdf, accessed March 18, 2015. Core...
Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...engaged to work at a construction site, conference center, sports arena, hotel, or private residence. At these work sites, day laborers performed some of the most dangerous and physically-demanding work...
All Roads Led from Rome: Facing the History of Cherokee Expulsion
...Evidence of the extent of violence emerges in the dispossession claims of displaced Cherokees, in newspaper accounts of regrettable mishaps, court records of dismissed cases, military references to disciplinary problems,...
St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History
...other slave market sites are discussed below. In addition, Jim Crow era postcards often depicted grotesque illustrations of racism and segregation such as lynching. For an extensive discussion of lynching...
Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...diverse and plural."24Ghaziani, "Cultural Archipelagos," 7. Though my mapping project did not visualize cruising areas, the research behind it did surface many narratives of cruising. Analyzing these cruising narratives in...