Counterblast: How the Atlanta Temple Bombing Strengthened the Civil Rights Cause
...as forty anti-Semitic groups operating in the South at the time of the black freedom struggle. Some of these organizations promoted their cause exclusively through propaganda. Others took more direct...
Visions for Sustainable Agriculture in Cuba and the United States: Changing Minds and Models through Exchange
...remain and tend the land as their ancestors had for centuries. In 1998, UNESCO named Viñales a World Heritage site.2"World Heritage List," UNESCO, accessed March 15, 2012, http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/840. Some residents...
Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black
...to whites. Black novelist Charles Chesnutt noted in an article written in 1901, "If there is any choice of location" when it came to positioning such rooms, "the Negro always...
Inside Poor Monkey's
...that is often referred to as a "tin." It is windowless, but has three doors. The front sports several faded, hand-painted signs. One describes the dress code by saying "not...
An Excerpt from Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
...broke free from their enslaving masters and ran the show by themselves. Having made a fortune in a decade, they retired to western North Carolina, bought land, built houses, married...
Segregation's New Geography: The Atlanta Metro Region, Race, and the Declining Prospects for Upward Mobility
...underway) of the Great Migration of southern blacks to northern, midwestern, and western cities.16The Great Migration refers to the movement of roughly six million African Americans out of the South...
Putting the Vernacular in Modernism: A Review of Edward Comentale's Sweet Air
...and space, he argues, though consumption creates a portal through which a listener can inhabit this audiotopia.2Audiotopia is Josh Kun's term. Audiotopia represents the visceral, emotional, and intellectual experiences of...
Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
...bondpersons. Antoine comfortably and confidently addresses a nameless white listener, an individual about whom he feels no rigid class or race barriers. Moreover, this man, who serves as the frame...
Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance
...color named "Nannie" living in the United States. The 1870 census, the first to list all African Americans, lists about two-thousand black women named Nannie. An obelisk to Nannie Diggs,...
Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
...included in this presentation. Explore the playlist in a browser, in the Spotify app, or below. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3jb3B4673oywHk1hVIuAVs?si=yobWs0T3QRezeDMPcZJpOQ Spotify playlist featuring additional blues songs George Mitchell recorded in the Lower Chattahoochee...