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...
"The Ohio River Was Not the River Jordan": A Review of Matthew Salafia's Slavery's Borderland
...and American settlers. As the latter poured into the Ohio River Valley, with many of those in Kentucky bringing slaves and those in Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois territories barred from...
"Aint that Something?"
...© Robert Gipe, 2015. Originally published in Trampoline (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2015), 1, 58. This material is used by permission of Ohio University Press, www.ohioswallow.com. "I had had my...
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
...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...
Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
Introduction Location of Lockhart, Alabama, 2012. On a warm spring day in 1904, former governor of Maryland and lumberman E. E. Jackson, along with several associates, traveled to Alabama to...
Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters
...the Starlite draws them back: Richard resumes his position in the ticket booth while Dot dishes up the Starlite's renowned hot dogs and chili, the main attraction for some patrons.26Kittle,...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...This system of renting rooms is a way of making money in a low-wage economy, a strategy for paying the mortgage or rent, and a form of entrepreneurship. See Sarah...
The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance
...of the Ohio, together numbered approximately one hundred thousand troops as they approached the city, but only about twenty-seven thousand of them fought in the Battle of Atlanta.11Woodworth, Nothing But...
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...