Undoing the Voting Rights Act
...explaining the Act's 1982 changes stated: The courts are to look at the totality of the circumstances in order to determine whether the result of the challenged practice is that...
North Carolina: A State of Shock
...for changes in the state's election laws has been naked partisanship. Every change in North Carolina's new election code was targeted at reducing potential Democratic voters regardless of race, creed,...
Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville
...weeks off, change seemed inevitable.As September approached, the school board and administration under Bass and Oliver seemed prepared for this first small step toward racial equity. They heard encouraging words...
"I Used That Katrina Water To Master My Flow": Rap Performance, Disaster, and Recovery in New Orleans
...Preservation Hall, WWOZ, and so on), on-the-ground realities for most rappers in the city remain slow to change. Despite its takeover of the charts in recent years, southern rap in...
St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History
...initially built to house the exchange of foods and commercial goods, newspaper reports and city records document slave sales here. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, entrepreneurs depicted...
Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg
...collectors" to register the names of the authors and titles of books in their collections with the Exchange. Equipped with this master database, the Exchange would serve as a clearinghouse...
Atlanta's Charis Books and More: Histories of a Feminist Space
...New York University Press, 1997): 241–284. Elizabeth Anderson contributed the epilogue to this updated version. Photographer unknown, Charis Books and More, Atlanta, Georgia, 2006. During the 1970s, members of a...
An Unflinching Look: An Interview with Photographer Benjamin Dimmitt
...I was doing. And then climate change arrived, and I didn't really change my approach and become a different sort of photographer. I just photographed the impact. There was nothing...
The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance
...202. When news of the change in Confederate command reached Federal General William T. Sherman, he asked Schofield, Hood's classmate at West Point, about Hood. Schofield replied that Hood was...
Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South
...pre-World War II South is large. Major works include Wilma Dykeman and James Stokely, Seeds of Southern Change: The Life of Will Alexander (Chicago: University of Chicago, 1962); Morton Sosna, In Search of...