Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
...War to World War II (New York: Double Day, 2008). Foreign Contract Labor In the early 1900s, Jackson hired labor agents such as Sigmund Schwartz and Frank and Miller Company...
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
...fifteen or sixteen years old, but most were in their late teens or early twenties. There were several mother-daughter pairs in the mill, and a number of the women working...
The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape
...provision of better educational opportunities for their children, the adoption of up-to-date styles of architecture, the installation of indoor plumbing, and the purchase of automobiles, pianos, and other amenities. In...
Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black
...early Black travelers arrived at the train station, they sometimes found themselves forced to purchase their "tickets moments before their train pulled out."12Joan Steinau Lester, Eleanor Holmes Norton: Fire in...
Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement
...number slightly above the percentage of the Asian school-age population. Only white students and students with Asian ancestries were in private schools in numbers that exceeded or generally matched their...
Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...number of studies have suggested, many early minstrel performers expended considerable effort attempting to imitate the fiddle/banjo performances of black southerners, and these imitations were incorporated into the minstrel show—albeit...
"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...
Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...effect September 1." Martinson clearly assumed this law somehow led to the closure of the Adult Library. More specifically, in another letter to the Mayor dated February 12, 1972,49Correspondence from...
Low-Wage Legacies, Race, and the Golden Chicken in Mississippi: Where Contemporary Immigration Meets African American Labor History
...population, demographic, and housing information: General Demographic Characteristics," 2000, accessed October 13, 2002, http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/28/28123.html. Driven by the industry's recruitment of foreign-born labor, by the early 2000s immigration had made Scott...
Wanted eLove: Queer Square Spaces and the Revolution in Digital Intimacy
...who can be seen clearly and what or who might be made cloudy. We find this early thinking replicated from 1908 through the official Homophile years of activism beginning in...