Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement
...Book Library, Emory University. View full booklet. Afterwards, the IRS revoked the tax exemptions of more than one hundred private schools and scrutinized applications for tax exemption from others; however,...
Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
...(New York: Basic Books, 1992). The "Jackson Tract" E. E. Jackson. American Lumberman 1907, Part 1, January–June 1907, Forest History Society archive. Governor E. E. Jackson of Maryland—Methodist, Republican, and...
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...
Atlanta's Charis Books and More: Histories of a Feminist Space
...social alternative bookstore," Linda remembers envisioning a store with a focus on women's books as well as children's books (Barbara's expertise) and radical theology books.12Linda remembers carrying Charis Clarence Jordan's...
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...
The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape
...to find work and to enjoy the amenities and novelties of town life. In 1907 an Onancock editor directed the attention of his readers "to the great number of homes...
Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...those in the songs from this recording session can be found in E. A. McIlhenny's book, Befo' de War Spirituals (1933). McIlhenny was and remains the best-known scion of the...
Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South
...man's South."59Daniels, A Southerner Discovers the South, 9-10. "the best book about the modern South"? Daniels' South was idiosyncratic, but readers considered it accurate and found the book engaging. Not only...
"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
...increased pedestrian and street traffic, Story Book created a commercialized space for cruising (and its consummation) to occur out of direct public view at the same time as both police...