Rethinking the Geography of Lynching
...of a nationwide protest against the practice, organized by the National Afro-American Council in 1899.1Rev. D. A. Graham, "Some Facts About Southern Lynching," Indianapolis Recorder, June 10, 1899, reprinted on...
Ireland’s First Sacred Harp Convention: “To Meet To Part No More”
...have imagined their new singings as revivals of these lapsed earlier practices.2See John Bealle, Public Worship, Private Faith: Sacred Harp and American Folksong (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1997), 188–244...
Marching for Gay Rights in Atlanta, 1971: An Excerpt from A Night at the Sweet Gum Head
...Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection at UGA Libraries, Athens, Georgia, June 27, 1971. He parsed his words carefully. Atlanta was not San Francisco. He warned Northern friends, half...
Race and Difference in the "Other America": A Review of Anne Braden: Southern Patriot
...Book Library. Page 1 - Page 2 - Page 3 - Page 4 The film Anne Braden: Southern Patriot shows how Anne Braden found her voice as a southern white...
Ungesund: Yellow Fever, the Antebellum Gulf South, and German Immigration
...durch die Vereinigten Staaten von Nord-Amerika in den Jahren 1818 und 1819, vol. 1 (Berlin: H. Pb. Petri, 1820), 1. In his 1820, two-volume Tour of the United States of...
No Country for Old Hippies: Jason Mellard's Progressive Country
...The Outlaws. RCA Victor, 1976. Wanted! The Outlaws, 1976. Album Cover. RCA Victor. © RCA Victor. Wanted! The Outlaws does not simply deploy songs of masculine rebellion, it also contains ballads...
"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...
Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia
...and keep their gains.5On corporate subsidies, Niraj Chokshi, "The United States of Subsidies," Washington Post, March 18, 2015, www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2015/03/17/the-united-states-of-subsidies-the-biggest-corporate-winners-in-each-state/?utm_term=.314361798972. Top, View of Arthurdale project, Reedsville, West Virginia, 1935. Photograph by...
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...