Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...and geographically scattered day laboring population in Atlanta.Because of the sheer number of day labor positions and the diversity of methods for procuring employment, some contingent workers called Atlanta "day...
Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
Introduction Location of Lockhart, Alabama, 2012. On a warm spring day in 1904, former governor of Maryland and lumberman E. E. Jackson, along with several associates, traveled to Alabama to...
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
...Wal-Mart has added its own twist to the system by buying from non-US subcontractors, Global-South-based private manufacturers who hire the workers and take responsibility for the day-to-day production of goods...
The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance
...Confederate Memorial Day, April 26, 1874. The obelisk is the focal point for the entire Confederate section and for decades provided the backdrop for annual Confederate Memorial Day celebrations. At...
Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black
...fried the day before yesterday, old bread and a slice of musty pie," whereas "the white passengers in the lunch room may get a hot drink or a fried egg...
Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...styles have—for the most part— expired. Today the 1934 Lomax recordings provide the best early record of this diverse array of types. These styles include—but are not limited to—traditional French...
The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape
...the gulf which separates it from outside modern life." Like many Americans of his day, Pyle saw the landscape as an expression of a human society and modernity as a...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...relocating to the area from Kansas to open a daycare business. Nberry 7 wrote, "I Found some very nice houses on the internet for cheap, but is there a catch...
Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement
...number slightly above the percentage of the Asian school-age population. Only white students and students with Asian ancestries were in private schools in numbers that exceeded or generally matched their...
Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville
...pre-registration and canvassing data, only six of those were categorized as schools where desegregation was "probable" on opening day; by that date, the number had risen to eight. See statistical...