Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
...to multiple perspectives, these shows offered audiences something new—a desegregated news account. At the local level, some news organizations began putting together hour-long news specials on the civil rights struggle...
McGirt v. Oklahoma: Implications of the 2020 Supreme Court Decision for Native America
...describe how crimes are prosecuted on reservations. And it involves a complicated narrative about how Oklahoma tribal jurisdiction has a unique status in relationship to other Indian reservations across the...
Mapping the Muggleheads: New Orleans and the Marijuana Menace, 1920–1930
...Set as 'Muggles' Drive Is Ordered," Times-Picayune (New Orleans), April 18, 1929; "Police Open New War on Dealers in Marihuana," Times-Picayune (New Orleans), October 26, 1930. Previous studies of marijuana...
Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement
...far been unable to convince Congress to fund such programs directly.4Jane Mayer, "Betsy DeVos, Trump's Big-Donor Education Secretary," New Yorker, November 23, 2016, https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/betsy-devos-trumps-big-donor-education-secretary; Emma Brown, "DeVos Promises 'the Most...
Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
...1680–1920 (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1996), 1–2, 10, 12. For a discussion of industrialism in the "New South," see C. Vann Woodward, Origins of the New South (Baton Rouge:...
The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape
...trees," those that followed soon after discovered "new settlements appearing, and buildings going up wherever a station has been built." From the new depots (eventually numbering twenty-eight) rail cars carried...
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
...At first glance, it might seem that industrialization in the New South was a repeat performance of what had happened in Britain and the northeastern United States, but the New...
Crossing Over: Sustainability, New Urbanism, and Gentrification in Austin, Texas
...an Architecture of Community (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1994); Congress for the New Urbanism, Charter of the New Urbanism (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2000); Andres Duany, Jeff Speck, with Mike Lydon, The...
Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition
...Imagery Distribution System (dvids), http://www.dvidshub.net/news/3054/west-virginia-national-guard-plays-vital-role-infantry-mission, September 19, 2005 KEN FEMA News Photo, New Orleans, Louisiana, October 2, 2005. Photograph by Andrea Booher. "Harlow Pickett from Kenyon marks a building with...
Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the US South, 1997–2007
...of the earliest formations of a black popular music culture."6Kyra D. Gaunt, The Games Black Girls Play: Learning the Ropes from Double-Dutch to Hip-Hop. (New York: New York University Press,...