Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
...Byrd, including Byrd's own newspaper company, were unable to gain control of a television license. In Roanoke, the Fishburn family controlled the Roanoke World News and the CBS affiliate, WDBJ,...
Our Backward Revolution
...“GOP Redmap Memo . . . ,” January 17, 2013, “https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gop-redmap-memo-gerrymandering_n_2498913; “Rucho v. Common Cause," https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rucho_v._Common_Cause; “Most Gerrymandered States,” World Population Review, https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/most-gerrymandered-states. Republicans and Democrats argue over whether such...
Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement
...News, February 3, 1955, 3; "South Carolina," Southern School News, March 3, 1955, 14; "South Carolina," Southern School News, July 1955, 4. Even bills proposing confrontational tactics, such as closing...
Eggleston's South: "Always in Color"
...a way of looking at things in the world. In a documentary for BBC television, he remembered "I had been working down in Oxford or Holly Springs, [Mississippi,] one day,...
The Making of the Arkansas Cemetery Angel: AIDS Activism, Care Work, and Fragmentary Archives in the Life of Ruth Coker Burks
...Koon, “Ruth Coker Burks: The Cemetery Angel,” Arkansas Times, January 8, 2015, https://arktimes.com/news/cover-stories/2015/01/08/ruth-coker-burks-the-cemetery-angel. Alongside care work and public activism, Ruth provided a final resting place for some men she cared...
Southern Spaces: A Partial History
...Southern Spaces operated with stand-alone, static pages using Dreamweaver. Media was stored in wmv and mov files and to implement Google Analytics, we added the Google snippet to the JavaScript...
"Miking" Against Covid in Bangladesh
...rumors. This collaboration provided 3,400 faith leaders with awareness messaging, 860,000 reusable masks, and 350,000 leaflets. Faith leaders and scholars such as Leor P. Sarkar (General Secretary of the BBCF),...
DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
...and more.10Edmund Russell, War and Nature: Fighting Humans and Insects with Chemicals from World War I to Silent Spring (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001), 127–129, 155. National news outlets...
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
...poverty, chiefly through trade." But the protestors are also right, she argues, for "no nation has ever developed over the long term under the rules being imposed today on thirdworld...
Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...relates stories from men who lived in Houston before World War II, and recounts a queer urban geography through their eyes: "The 'gay circuit'—they didn't know the word 'gay'—was downtown...