Separate and Unequal Schools: The Past Is Future
...no reliable data on the number of children with special needs enrolled in private schools. A small number were established to serve special needs students, but the vast majority do...
Whole Cloth Chintz Wedding Quilt [ca 1850]
...than practical. Rosa's new husband could certainly afford to provide the household goods the couple needed. In many communities, however, it was traditional for the bride's family to supply the...
Brushes with War
...sky, from the arctic to the Andes. Suitably, the book's engaging cover image—The Camp of the Seventh Regiment near Frederick, Maryland (1863), by Sanford Robinson Gifford—highlights a respected, though little-remembered,...
Racial breakdown of the population of the fourteen Georgia counties in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley.
...1,949 37.11 3,232 61.54 Talbot 2,391 36.80 4,002 61.59 Terrell 4,163 37.95 6,658 60.69 Troup 38,676 65.80 18,734 31.87 Published: 16 March 2004 © 2004 Steve Bransford and Southern Spaces...
Dancing Around the "Glaring Light of Television": Black Teen Dance Shows in the South
...Rainey in 1924.1Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, vocal performance of "See See Rider Blues" by Ma Rainey and Lena Arant, recorded October 16, 1924, by Paramount, catalogue number 12252, 78 rpm. With "Betty and Dupree,"...
Loving-Moonlight(ing): Cinema in the Breach
...in Washington, DC, Mildred and Richard decide, in violation of state law, to move back to Virginia with their three young children. They find a farmhouse. It has no telephone...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,'Who Do You Think Of?": Part One
...and collars ("Mexico"; T. Pratt; Crowder). Now, someone told me, 80 percent of working people in Bibb have to commute outside the county in order to find work. I had...
An Unflinching Look: An Interview with Photographer Benjamin Dimmitt
Bransford: Before we talk about An Unflinching Look: Elegy for Wetlands, can you talk about your personal history with the Chassahowitzka National Wildlife Refuge? And then describe the Refuge in...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Three
...at the crossroads of the railroad and U.S. 11, just off the highway, a place where the growing number of mexicano workers can send envios of money home. I grew...
Along the Ulcofauhatche: Of Sorrow Songs and "Dried Indian Creek"
...town of Oxford. Angeline's daughters mainly remained in Oxford and married into local families; nearly every long-term African American family here traces descent back to one of these "Sims" women....