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...
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...
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
...and effects. In this zone where the South "ends," we can understand more about the region's modern development because the contradictions at the heart of it stand in such stark...
Encountering COVID
...phone call. I had noticed at the funeral that my friend's best friend was not there. Well, so I got the call from another friend who was at the funeral....
Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...found ourselves enduring Alan when he was alive recognize that his contributions to our understanding of our own communities endure as well."43Ancelet, "Lomax in Louisiana." Promotional still for PBS's American...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...November 4, 2009 , http://www.city-data.com/forum/orlando/807347-moving-kissimmee-ks.html. The Internet user received a number of responses over a three-month period: I wouldn't put my kids into Osceola schools. If you don't speak Spanish...
Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville
...friend, Rita Buchanan, who went too, her and her mother. There was some white people down there hollering, but they didn't bother us. "The day school started, I got Linda...
Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters
...continued to decline throughout the 1990s; by century's end, fewer than 450 theaters survived.6"Interactive Statistics." In the 2000s, the number of theaters stabilized at around four hundred, but their geographical...