Atlanta's Charis Books and More: Histories of a Feminist Space
...members marching in the Atlanta Gay Pride Parade, Atlanta, Georgia, 1973 Early History of Charis Books and More: 1974–1981 Photographer unknown, former owner Sherry Emory, founder Linda Bryant, and...
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 %...
Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
...Georgia, March 2d and 3d, 1859," The New-York Tribune, March 9, 1859, 8. Fitzhugh Brundage has noted that the contemporary term used to describe how people remember and articulate their history...
Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond
...Katrina and Intangible Culture Hurricane Katrina caused over 1.2 million people to flee greater New Orleans, where levees failed to protect both urban and outlying areas. I have elsewhere described...
"Our Country"—Benjamin E. Wise's William Alexander Percy
...other men.3Quoted in Robert Chauncey, Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Makings of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 (New York: Basic Books, 1994), 179. It was against this...
Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
...and sponsored by a "society of men of color." A recent immigrant to Paris, Séjour was in an amenable environment among kindred spirits who shared his sentiments about slavery. La...
Reckoning with Enslavement
...trace their lineage to White Marsh, one of the Jesuit-owned plantations located in Prince George's County, Maryland. Census of people to be sold, Maryland, 1838. This is the original list...
In Good Faith: Working-Class Women, Feminism, and Religious Support in the Struggle to Organize J. P. Stevens Textile Workers in the Southern Piedmont, 1974–1980
...Minchin, Hiring the Black Worker: The Racial Integration of the Southern Textile Industry, 1960–1980 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999), 164–165; Timothy J. Minchin, Don't Sleep with Stevens!:...
Negotiating Gender Lines: Women's Movement across Atlanta Mosques
...of a substantial number of prosperous black Atlantans, we might imagine that African American Muslims are more likely to live in Atlanta than in Chicago in the same neighborhoods or...
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...