Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black
..."It is best not to ask him for information even in the gentlest tones. His information is for white persons chiefly." The other whites who made themselves at home in...
Ten Dollars and a Bus Ticket
...legislation that rendered inmates ineligible for Pell Grants. Foundry dining room, Ten Dollars and a Bus Ticket, 2009. In 2008, the Alabama Department of Corrections reported that the state incarcerated...
Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
...of violence. In 1906, Alexander Irvine, a writer for Appleton's Magazine, went undercover in the Jackson lumber camps. In My Life in Peonage, Irvine wrote that Lockhart was "a town...
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
...in 1900; the Erwin Cotton Mill in Durham in 1919; or the Baldwin Mill in Marion in 1929. The looms in the Margilan weave room had been manufactured in the...
Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
...these were "Indian lands." The area that was to become the Ten Broeck Race Course is not in the image, but is further to the west in the area shown...
Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters
...of darkened cars.5"Drive-in theater," Wikipedia; "Interactive Statistics," Drive-ins.com, http://www.drive-ins.com/stats.htm. The drive-in's popularity was short-lived. By the 1960s, their numbers began to decline. In the 1970s, many fell victim to suburbanization....
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...BVL's residents: Buena Ventura Lakes is a lower income neighborhood in general. I would not recommend the area, but I know it is not the worst area to move to...
The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape
...and in some cases to Canada. In 12 hours the fresh and tempting fruits and vegetables are delivered in New York, in 20 hours in Boston, and in 30 hours...
Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...into the state's Francophone musical traditions, with a portable recording device in tow, began an intermittent but deeply influential engagement with Cajun and Creole music across his long career. Indeed,...
Low-Wage Legacies, Race, and the Golden Chicken in Mississippi: Where Contemporary Immigration Meets African American Labor History
...recounts the story of how he came to Mississippi: Mississippi . . . I think God put it in my path. I was in Florida picking oranges. One afternoon I...