Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
...direction into the woods. After hearing "some Irish men had run away before we came," said Bennie Graubert, "about twelve of us ran away too. . . . On the...
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
...of southern deindustrialization and Asian labor markets. Who makes what where, when, and why depends on a chase around the globe for cheap labor that involves overlapping waves of industrialization...
Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black
...and exactly one waiting room for Blacks—a "small and dirty room" that had to be entered from the side of the building.8"Atlanta Terminal of the Southern Railway," International Railway Journal...
The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape
...in the landscape already underway on the Shore and spawning hosts of others. Railroad cars carried Northward increasing quantities of Eastern Shore lumber, seafood, and farm produce and returned with...
Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...topical ballads and crossover dance numbers such as "Little Liza Jane." While anglophone black string band and folk blues traditions have not thrived in south Louisiana, all evidence indicates that...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...ways that language ideologies—ideas, perceptions, and beliefs about the nature and usage of languages—affect racial meanings, categorizations, and responses to Hispanic migration into Greater Orlando. I specifically engage the following...
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...
Interstate Road Project, Single-State History: Tammy Ingram's Look at the Dixie Highway
...travel. Good Roads activists began to lobby for a federally-funded highway system, and, after 1914, planning for the Dixie Highway commenced. The idea for the highway, Ingram notes, came from...
Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, and Biotechnology
...Memphis is positioned at a strategic interstate crossroads in the middle of the United States, midway between Monterrey, Mexico, and Toronto, Canada. A new interstate highway, I-69, the NAFTA superhighway...
Going South, Coming North: Migration and Union Organizing in Morristown, Tennessee
...come to the United States. Increasing numbers found their way, as Rudy did, to the Southeast. Migrants did not disperse evenly, but settled in clusters and hot spots. The new...