Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
...planning mill." Promising great profits for investors and sectional progress for the South, lumber journalists claimed Jackson offered "the provision of comfortable homes and pleasant surroundings, for the employees."9"Model Sawmill...
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
...the University Press of Flordia. Many thanks to Katie Rawson, Louis Fagnan, Sarah Melton, Alan Pike, and Jesse P. Karlsberg for editing, map making, and photography research. And to Allen...
The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape
...Northampton. On the seaside the trade networks were also divided. From there, steamers out of several Atlantic coast ports carried produce to Philadelphia, New York, and Boston. Position, proximity, access,...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...2010 (Figure 1). Figure 1. Hispanic Population, Puerto Rican Population, and Total Population. 2010 US Census. Hispanic Population and % of the Total Population Puerto Rican Population and %...
Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...Acadian folk songs."12Lauren C. Post, Cajun Sketches: From the Prairies of Southwest Louisiana (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1974), 159. The Cajun performances Post helped stage at the festival...
Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, and Biotechnology
...Brian D. Jacobs, Public-Private Partnerships for Local Economic Development (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood, 1998), 26. As local leaders endorse more public-private partnerships to foster entrepreneurial strategies, support increased investments in workforce...
Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black
...importunes you to the point of rage to buy cheap candy, Coca-Cola, and worthless, if not vulgar, books." Segregated waiting room at Union Station railroad depot, Jacksonville, Florida, 1921. Photograph...
Going South, Coming North: Migration and Union Organizing in Morristown, Tennessee
...2: Media Per Capita Earning by Population Group in Tennessee Relative to the United States as a Whole Population Group Median per capita income % of national per capita income...
The Color of Democracy: A Japanese Public Health Official’s Reconnaissance Trip to the US South
...Koya’s Pioneering in Family Planning, claimed that that his experiments proved that even “marginal people”—rural people, coal miner workers, and people on public relief—could be turned into “contraceptors” in a...
Taming Southern Waters: Christopher J. Manganiello’s Southern Water, Southern Power
...Manganiello demonstrates, politically and economically powerful men pursued a vision of a modern, capitalist South predicated on developing rivers to produce cheap energy and promote economic growth well before TVA's...