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,...
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...
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...
The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape
...opened every community on the Eastern Shore to the doings of the world. On Chincoteague in March 1884, thirty-three Northern daily newspapers arrived each day at the post office. Later...
Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the US South, 1997–2007
...World-Herald, Mar. 30, 2006; Jones, "Get Crunk Huh!" This release and freedom from hooks and chains articulates the physical abandon that makes "rumps shake and jugular veins throb," offering momentary...
"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...[ME] Daily Press, Sept. 20, 1880, 1. Courtesy of the Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83016025/1880-09-20/ed-1/seq-1/. Different versions of this racist story circulated US newspapers for over...
Nowhere [yet Everywhere] in the World: Cuban History and Sexuality in the Dramas of Abel González Melo
...traces of this universe. Gunnels: Lucía from Nevada and María Luisa from Bayamesa really move me because of the way they confront their worlds, hostile worlds, but always with persistence...
From Arkansas with Love: Evangelical Crisis Management and Southern (White) Gospel Music
...Nashville," USAToday.com, October 14, 2013, accessed January 28, 2014, http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2013/10/14/dove-awards-nashville/2984327/). The rise of CCM participated in the transformation of conservative and fundamentalist Christian culture in the United States beginning in...
Genres of Southern Literature
...Heilman's essay, entitled "The Southern Temper," a seminal exercise in genre making (it was first published in 1952 in Louis Rubin and Robert Jacobs, Southern Renascence, and was reprinted in 1961 in Rubin...