A City Divided
Introduction In spite of increasing animosity between workers and elites, blacks and whites, through the turn of the century, Atlanta's residential landscape remained curiously heterogeneous in terms of race and...
Latinos, the American South, and the Future of US Race Relations
...crossing the Ohio River to the North. The Ohio River was the border between the free states of the north and slavery states of the south. Even after crossing the...
Desegregation, Delaware, and Civil Rights Liberalism: A Review of Brett Gadsden's Between North and South
...of local studies within civil rights historiography in general. We are now some years past landmark publications such as Jeanne Theoharis and Komozi Woodard's Freedom North: Black Freedom Struggles Outside...
"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
“If I could attach our blood vessels in order to anchor you to the earth to this present time I would... It makes me weep to feel the history of...
Inside Poor Monkey's
...year round, and tinsel in multiple lengths and shapes hangs from the ceiling. Walls are carpeted with photographs of images ranging from school graduation to promotional shots of strippers. Stuffed...
Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South
...is extensive. Major works include Daniel Joseph Singal, The War Within: From Victorian to Modernist Thought in the South (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1982); Michael O'Brien, The Idea of the...
The Supreme Court Is Overturning Brown v. Board of Education
...Education Betsy DeVos’s plan to spend billions of federal dollars on private school vouchers. Sign protesting Betsy DeVos at a rally, October 13, 2017. Photograph by Flickr user Backbone Campaign....
Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
...Butler visited the plantations infrequently, he depended on overseers like Roswell King, Sr., and his son Roswell, Jr., for daily management. Between them, the two Kings managed the Butler plantations...
Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, and Biotechnology
...Research Center), "Diplomas Count: An Essential Guide to Graduation Policy and Rates," Education Week, June 22, 2006. The city's high level of poverty and low level of educational attainment are...
African American Community Building in Atlanta: A Guide to the Study of Race in America
...risk. Jim Crow made for a volatile situation. Separation and exclusion in neighborhoods, schools, and public accommodations did not eliminate the potential for conflict between the races in the street...