Dancing Around the "Glaring Light of Television": Black Teen Dance Shows in the South
...user Ron Cogswell. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC 2.0. Middle, Woolworth's counter exhibit, Raleigh, North Carolina, 2012. Photograph by Flickr user Tim Bounds. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC 2.0. Bottom, Woolworth's Sit-In sculpture, Greensboro,...
The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape
Introduction Map of Eastern Virginia, circa 1862 When in 1884 the New York, Philadelphia, and Norfolk Railroad, a subsidiary of the powerful Pennsylvania system, extended its line south through the...
Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
...Philadelphia where labor agents operated within networks of ethnic migration chains to exploit pools of unemployed immigrant workers. In 1906, the Jackson Lumber Company's expansion in Alabama led them to...
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,...
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...
Slavery's Traces: In Search of Ashley's Sack
...named Rose, valued at $700. The full listing reads: Slave Cicero 1,000, slave Sophia 300, slave Jane 400 Slave Jack 800, slave Rose 700, slave David 800, old woman 100...
Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters
...the Starlite." Raleigh Road Outdoor Theatre - Henderson, North Carolina Open since 1949, the Raleigh Road Outdoor Theatre, originally the Moon-Glo, is North Carolina's oldest drive-in. Ali-Baba & The Forty...
North Carolina: A State of Shock
...John Frank and Rob Christensen, "Dome: In other news, NC Senate gives final approval to tax bill," Raleigh News and Observer, July 3, 2013, http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/07/03/3009073/dome-in-other-news-nc-senate-gives.html; John Frank, "Impact of Proposed...
"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...
Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South
...1937, Jonathan Daniels, the thirty-five-year-old editor of the Raleigh, North Carolina, News and Observer, set out on a ten-state tour of the South. The odometer of his Plymouth read 22,246.2...