Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black
...railroads had a single ticket booth with segregated ticket windows was less innocuous than it might seem.11A Florida statute passed in 1907 required "Separate Waiting Rooms and Ticket Windows," The...
Ten Dollars and a Bus Ticket
Ten Dollars and a Bus Ticket: Video and Essay Ten Dollars and a Bus Ticket. A short video by Ben Harmon and Catalina McCormick, 2009. Individuals' experiences in the criminal...
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
...sentenced to prison terms for protesting working conditions and organizing collectively. Despite American human rights protests in opposition to such heavy-handed government intervention against worker's rights, these actions merely repeat...
Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
...hounds after him. "They treed the nigger alright," noted the wife of foremen Archie Bellinger. Bloodhounds have thick coats and struggle in hot weather, easily overheating or even dying while...
Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
...race problem." At the same time, the editorial warned that zealous civil rights proponents were beginning to trample "upon constitutional guarantees" in calling for the proposed Civil Rights Bill.38Federal Communication...
Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement
...Roderick Wright, "Mrs. Murtis Powell: On the Front Lines of Battle," in Minds Stayed on Freedom: The Civil Rights Struggle in the Rural South, an Oral History, ed. Youth of...
Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters
...Mountains. Neon lights illuminate the blue-and-red ticket booth and the matching building that houses the projector, restrooms, and snackbar. The Starlite's bright colors contrast with the drive-in's residential surroundings. Two...
The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape
...States generally, have long determined that the railroads were widely significant and nearly every history of the region deals with railroads. For critical works that examine the railroads in the...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
..."the cultural system of ideas about social and linguistic relationships, together with their loading of moral and political interests."5Judith T. Irvine, "When Talk Isn't Cheap: Language and Political Economy," American...
Low-Wage Legacies, Race, and the Golden Chicken in Mississippi: Where Contemporary Immigration Meets African American Labor History
...with the history of the long civil rights movement, particularly in the late 1960s to early 1980s.12On the long civil rights movement, see Jacqueline Dowd Hall, "The Long Civil Rights...