The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape
...and a bank.61Mariner, Revival's Children, 239-637; Frances Bibbins Latimer, Landmarks: Black Historic Sites on the Eastern Shore of Virginia (Eastville, Va.: Hickory House, forthcoming). For black migration to the Eastern...
Crossing Over: Sustainability, New Urbanism, and Gentrification in Austin, Texas
...scheduled for clearance or rehab in East Austin; at least 250 of those acres were in central East Austin, a majority African American neighborhood.41"W. W. Collins to J. J. Pickle,"...
The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance
...ground east of the city, where the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library is now located. Sherman surveying the battlefield, in front of the Augustus Hurt House, east of Atlanta, July 22,...
John Cohen in Eastern Kentucky: Documentary Expression and the Image of Roscoe Halcomb During the Folk Revival
Preface On a muggy Sunday afternoon in June of 1959, John Cohen wandered the winding mountain roads of eastern Kentucky searching for old-time musicians. Neon, Bulan, Vicco, Viper, Daisy, Defiance...
Hoboken Style: Meaning and Change in Okefenokee Sacred Harp Singing
...Harp singers to the Florida Folk Festival (FFF) stage. The singers had traveled from the Okefenokee region of southeast Georgia and northeast Florida to the town of White Springs. They...
The Tennessee Jamboree: Local Radio, the Barn Dance, and Cultural Life in Appalachian East Tennessee
...radio (and later television) barn dance tradition, as it expanded nationally and as it developed within East Tennessee. These sections feature audio and video clips from several programs, included to...
Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the US South, 1997–2007
...places. Understanding the ways that place-based identities change within rap is of central importance.[/fn] Photograph of Atlanta’s Lil Jon & the East Side Boyz at a local landmark (Ichiban Records,...
Going South, Coming North: Migration and Union Organizing in Morristown, Tennessee
...Chronicle, October 24, 2006. Worker Rights Board Hearing Organized by Jobs with Justice of East Tennessee, from Morristown: in the air and sun (2007). Jobs with Justice of East Tennessee...
Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...and scarred man of slight build had just arrived at the day labor hiring hall in Canton, Georgia, after a three-month journey from Guatemala. Terry Easton, Waiting for work. Buford Highway,...
"Out Yonder on the Road": Working Class Self-Representation and the 1939 Roadside Demonstration in Southeast Missouri
...by Howard Emerson, March 1963, quoted in Howard Emerson, "Sharecropper's Strike, 1939" (Senior honors thesis, Southeast Missouri State University, 1963), 41; "Investigation Concerning the Sharecropper Situation Existing in Southeast Missouri,"...