Undoing the Voting Rights Act
...and local governments to use their existing misdeeds as a defense against legal challenges. In 1965, twenty-one states required English-only literacy tests to qualify to vote. Most states permitted absentee...
A City Divided
...core as density increased (at least initially) but demanded a complete alteration of the existing landscape. About the Author LeeAnn Lands recieved her PhD from the Georgia Institute of Technology's...
"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...Democrats with the possibility of dividing the white vote. To maintain the existing class and political structure, white Democrats turned to tactics of disenfranchisement and terror against Blacks and poor...
Medicine as Memory: Radcliffe Bailey at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
...an exhibition checklist, five essays, and a comprehensive bibliography of Bailey’s work, exhibitions, commentary, and reviews. Bailey’s works inhabit spaces both real and mythical—the church, the baseball diamond, the piano,...
Shaping a Southern Soundscape
...or Delta blacks, for example—isolated from popular musical trends. At the same time, the sale of sheet music and especially recordings changed how people thought about songs by standardizing arrangements...
Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron
...his deep love for its people, its culture, and its political struggles are readily apparent in songs like "95 South: All of the Places We've Been," "Delta Man," "Angola," "Jose...
James Holland, Riverkeeper: Environmental Protection along the Altamaha
...to take, returning the rest to forage through the delta mud. The numbers in the coolers spoke: they were falling, 300 pounds, 225, 175. Every year they fell—he remembers 1,500...
"No Deadline Short of the Grave": The Photographs of Paul Kwilecki
...Photographs from the Mississippi Delta (University Press of Mississippi, 1993), Deaf Maggie Lee Sayre: Photographs of a River Life (University Press of Mississippi, 1995), and Local Heroes Changing America: Indivisible...
Southern Spaces on Hurricane Katrina
...Spaces, January 17, 2012, https://southernspaces.org/2012/unhappy-trails-big-easy-public-spaces-and-square-called-congo. Trethewey, Natasha. "Geography." Southern Spaces, January 11, 2011, https://southernspaces.org/2011/geography. Saikku, Mikko. "Bioregional Approach to Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta." Southern Spaces, January 28, 2010, https://southernspaces.org/2010/bioregional-approach-southern-history-yazoo-mississippi-delta....
Driving Through Time: The Digital Blue Ridge Parkway
...tortuous at worst. High mountain terrain, twenty-six tunnels, weather, and an existing landscape that often had to be made "scenic" presented challenging and ongoing obstacles to the engineers, architects, and...