Slavery's Traces: In Search of Ashley's Sack
...named Rose, valued at $700. The full listing reads: Slave Cicero 1,000, slave Sophia 300, slave Jane 400 Slave Jack 800, slave Rose 700, slave David 800, old woman 100...
Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg
...form of artworks in and of themselves. Major tribute programs were produced and presented in Broadway Theater venues—the Shubert, and Majestic Theaters, and Carnegie Hall—featuring Broadway-quality artists who celebrated the...
Southern Football, African American Athletes, and the Relative Decline of the Big Ten
...its schools recruited talented African American athletes earlier than a number of other power conferences, most notably, of course, those in the South. Before the early 1970s, a minuscule number...
Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition
...RIGHT QUADRANT — Personal hazards. BOTTOM QUADRANT — Number of live and dead victims still inside the structure. ["0" = no victims] National Urban Search and Rescue (US&R) Response System,...
Nannie's Stone: Appendices by Mark Auslander and Lisa Fager
...5, 1814 edition of the National Intelligencer. Matilda, the grandmother of Francis, appears thirteen years earlier, in a runaway slave advertisement in March 1814, having escaped from Benjamin Sprigg. When...
Whatwuzit?: The 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics Reconsidered
...Atlanta was voted number two in Fortune's 1995 'Best Cities for Business' list, the city also ranks number two in the nation in income disparity between blacks and whites, number...
"We're Almost There": The Drive-By Truckers' Art of Place
...too many winters away from their last paint job. For the boys from those houses, only football, and maybe the army, provide a way out. The former football player in...
Crosses, Flowers, and Asphalt: Roadside Memorials in the US South
...the locations of highway deaths are created from a sense of memory to bestow respect on those who have passed. They express the universal uncertainty of our survival each time...
Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
...become? Shall he smash his skull against the paving stones? Shall he kill his torturer? Or do you believe the human heart can find a way to bear such misfortune?"...
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...