Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
...Labor: Padrones and Immigrant Workers in the North American West, 1880–1930 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000). A log train with cut, stacked timber, near Lockhart, Alabama. American Lumberman 1907,...
Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
...Bryan's company owned the Richmond Times-Dispatch and the Richmond News Leader, as well as two radio stations in Richmond. When the Richmond Television Corporation, headed by Morton G. Thalhimer, a...
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
...sentenced to prison terms for protesting working conditions and organizing collectively. Despite American human rights protests in opposition to such heavy-handed government intervention against worker's rights, these actions merely repeat...
"Within Thy Circling Pow'r I Stand": Immersive Video from Sacred Harp's Hollow Square
...of Georgia Press, 1997); Kiri Miller, Traveling Home: Sacred Harp Singing and American Pluralism (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2008); David Warren Steel and Richard H. Hulan, The Makers of...
Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...play-party songs; Protestant hymns; French drinking songs; sacred, profane, and downright bawdy English and American ballads; French adaptations of English ballads; American fiddle tunes; Creole jurés; ring shout songs; blues...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...is the language of our Nation. Only through the acquisition of this language will Puerto Rican Americans secure a better understanding of American ideals and principles.14Edith Algren de Gutiérrez, The...
Low-Wage Legacies, Race, and the Golden Chicken in Mississippi: Where Contemporary Immigration Meets African American Labor History
...with the history of the long civil rights movement, particularly in the late 1960s to early 1980s.12On the long civil rights movement, see Jacqueline Dowd Hall, "The Long Civil Rights...
Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement
...Douglas Martin, "Julius Chambers, a Fighter for Civil Rights, Dies at 76," New York Times, August 6, 2013, https://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/07/us/julius-chambers-a-fighter-for-civil-rights-dies-at-76.html; "Hawkins v. North Carolina State Board of Education," Race Relations Law...
The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape
...Eastern Shore was established about 2,000 to 4,000 years ago when sea level rise slowed after the end of the last Ice Age. The pace of sea level rise began...
Segregation's New Geography: The Atlanta Metro Region, Race, and the Declining Prospects for Upward Mobility
...counties combined (250,885). The numbers of African American residents in "diversifying" Fayette, northern Fulton, and Gwinnett counties each approximately doubled over the course of the decade; the numbers in Henry...