Racial breakdown of the population of the fourteen Georgia counties in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley.
...57.10 11,270 39.91 Early 6,212 50.28 5,947 48.14 Harris 18,584 78.43 4,614 19.47 Marion 4,347 60.85 2,434 34.07 Muscogee 93,936 50.42 81,488 43.74 Quitman 1,354 52.12 1,218 46.88 Randolph 3,034...
Color Photographs from the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information
...newsprint, Lufkin, Texas, 1943. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Color Photographs Collection, LC-USW36-836. Arthur Rothstein, Community clothesline, FSA camp, Robstown, Texas, 1942. Library of Congress Prints and...
Sprinkle Creek, North Carolina
...Amberg. Grapevine, Sprinkle Creek, NC, 1997. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Grapevine, Sprinkle Creek, NC, 1997. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Chestnut tree stump on the I-26 right-of-way, Sprinkle Creek,...
No Place To Be Displaced: Katrina Response and the Deep South's Political Economy
...3.5 % Change, 1990–2006 1116.0 94.0 Black Population % of Total Population, 1990 14.9 45.8 % of Total Population, 2006 18.6 45.3 % Change, 1990–2006 24.8 -1.0 White Population %...
Race, Capitalism, and the Rise and Fall of Black Beach Communities
...of Ida. B. Wells, 1892–1900 (Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 1996); W. Fitzhugh Brundage, Lynching in the New South: Georgia and Virginia, 1880–1940 (Urbana: University of Illinois, 1993). Kahrl points to a...
The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance
...eds., Sherman's Civil War: Selected Correspondence of William T. Sherman, 1860–1865 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999), 639. Despite several battlefield setbacks, most severely at Kennesaw Mountain on...
Queering Southern Gospel: A Review of Douglas Harrison's Then Sings My Soul
...Black Homophobia," The New York Times, June 1, 2012, accessed August 4, 2012, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/02/us/gospel-music-book-challenges-black-homophobia.html; Louis Bayard, "Review of Anthony Heilbut's 'The Fan Who Knew Too Much,'" The Washington Post, August...
An Excerpt from Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
...surgical operation upon themselves."2James Hale, letter to Charles Harris, July 27, 1843, North Carolina State Archives. The Siamese Twins, Jeffersonian Republic, Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, November 21, 1844. Excerpt from newspaper article...
Carolina's Caribbean Origins: A Review of Hubs of Empire
...Relationships," American Speech 55, no. 1 (Spring, 1980): 17–35. Overall this is a fine book: balanced, comprehensive, and well written. The story of colonial America needs to be reinserted into...
"Out Yonder on the Road": Working Class Self-Representation and the 1939 Roadside Demonstration in Southeast Missouri
...Land Policy Review 3 (Jan.-Feb. 1940): 4-5; Daniel, Breaking the Land, 170-75. For the economic shape of rural re-development in the Bootheel, see Roll, Spirit of Rebellion, 116, 161. In...