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...
Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
...enforcement to conceal their abuses from federal authorities. For a discussion of environmental history methodologies, see Gunther Peck, "The Nature of Labor: Fault Lines and Common Ground in Environmental and...
Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black
...Virginia, the Sea Board Air Line Railway ran along the South's eastern coast, terminating in Florida. Despite its name, it owned no airplanes. Before the days of air travel, "air...
Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South
...man's South."59Daniels, A Southerner Discovers the South, 9-10. "the best book about the modern South"? Daniels' South was idiosyncratic, but readers considered it accurate and found the book engaging. Not only...
Atlanta's Charis Books and More: Histories of a Feminist Space
...social alternative bookstore," Linda remembers envisioning a store with a focus on women's books as well as children's books (Barbara's expertise) and radical theology books.12Linda remembers carrying Charis Clarence Jordan's...
Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters
...During the Depression few people were willing to spring for the price of tickets, and drive-ins slowly appeared on the outskirts of other urban areas, such as Galveston, Texas, Los...
The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance
...as much attention as battle facts. Gone with the Wind, for instance, as a bestselling novel and blockbuster movie has shaped popular perception of the Civil War more than the...
Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...Such headlines and biased language deepen our understanding of why Plummer might specifically comment on the "fair and unbiased reporting" regarding the no-turn signs and cruising; just weeks before the...
Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
...without commercial interruption. Despite these impressively documented and balanced news reports, some local affiliates did not air them, preferring to air more commercially successful programming. When they were shown on...
Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...those in the songs from this recording session can be found in E. A. McIlhenny's book, Befo' de War Spirituals (1933). McIlhenny was and remains the best-known scion of the...