Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville
...the room at a Nashville School Board hearing on desegregation, Nashville, TN, March 1956. © Nashville Public Library. The local lines of division in this intensifying national debate were sharply drawn...
The Tennessee Jamboree: Local Radio, the Barn Dance, and Cultural Life in Appalachian East Tennessee
...LaFollette, Tennessee, and one such barn dance program was the Tennessee Jamboree. LaFollette Map of LaFollette, Tennessee. (Base Map Data: US Census Bureau) The Tennessee Jamboree was created to entertain the...
Going South, Coming North: Migration and Union Organizing in Morristown, Tennessee
...Rights Coalition, founded in Nashville in 2001, hired its first organizer for east Tennessee in November, 2005.35For more about the origins of the Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition, see...
New Pasts: Historicizing Immigration, Race, and Place in the South
...image of Nashville’s ‘new sonido.’12For research on immigration to Nashville, see Jamie Winders, “Placing Latinos in the Music City: Latino Migration and Urban Politics in Nashville, Tennessee,” in Latinos in...
The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance
...Carte de visite, albumen print. Federal Major General James B. McPherson, in command of the Army of the Tennessee, feared an impending attack by the Confederate Army of Tennessee on...
Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
...party took a private train car owned by the president of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, Milton H. Smith, from Montgomery eighty miles south to Opp, the end of the...
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...
The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape
...increase from forty-four to sixty-seven the number of post offices in Accomack and Northampton counties. The advent of the railroad in 1884 further stimulated the establishment of post offices both...
Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black
...of a number of nineteenth-century railroads whose proprietors wished to emphasize that their routes were more direct than those of competing roads. Black travelers described it in a discrimination complaint...
Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, and Biotechnology
...plays a prominent role, not only because of the city's central east-west geographic location in the continental United States and its north-south location equidistant between Toronto, Canada, and Monterrey, Mexico,...