Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement
...Silent Majority: Suburban Politics in the Sunbelt South (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006), 87–89. Governor Vandiver announced he would follow the Sibley report. He proposed to repeal race-specific laws...
Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
...in the Land: Patterns of American Nativism (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1955); Barbara Miller Solomon, Ancestors and Immigrants: A Changing New England Tradition (Chicago: University of Chicago Press,...
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
...small to take into a union."17US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Report on the Condition of Woman and Child Wage-Earners in the United States, 177. Because of the detrimental impact of...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...poverty, and welfare dependency.17Ana Ramos-Zayas, National Performances: The Politics of Class, Race, and Space in Puerto Rico Chicago (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003). Similarly, in New York City, Puerto...
Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
...than in Prince Edward County, Virginia, where the local board of supervisors closed the county schools for five years from 1959-1964 rather than allow them to be integrated. Prince Edward...
Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black
...Dancy, R. H. W. Leak et al. vs. Seaboard Airline and Southern Railroad," in Eighth Annual Report of the Board of Railroad Commissioners of North Carolina (Raleigh: Guy V. Barnes,...
The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape
...Eastern Shore of Virginia in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries," II, 599; "History of Growth of the Telephone on E.S. of Virginia," PE, August 18, 1928. The landscape, town and...
Goin' to Chicago and African American "Great Migrations"
...to Chicago provides a last look at several black Chicago institutions. "Economic Downturn," Video excerpt from Goin' to Chicago, a documentary film by George King, originally broadcast on PBS in...
The Pursuit of Health: Colonialism and Hookworm Eradication in Puerto Rico
...and Miguel Roses Artau of Arecibo.56Ashford, King, and Gutiérrez Igaravídez, Preliminary Report, 8–9. Through the efforts of Puerto Rican physicians, 18,865 patients had their fecal samples examined, a prescription dispensed,...
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,...