CDC in the Pandemic's Wake
...became glaringly obvious during the pandemic and contributed to numerous missteps in the US response to COVID-19."2Daniel Pollock, "COVID-19 Lessons in Ignorance," Southern Spaces, April 28, 2022, the first in...
"Closest to Everlastin'": Ozark Agricultural Biodiversity and Subsistence Traditions
...of residents over twenty-five years of age hold a high school degree, while only 8.4% have a bachelor’s degree or higher. The Ozarks in general has been described as “overchurched”...
"Out Yonder on the Road": Working Class Self-Representation and the 1939 Roadside Demonstration in Southeast Missouri
...the winter months, and invest their gains in labor-saving machinery, such as tractors. Between 1936 and 1941, the Bootheel's tenancy rate—which measured the number of those who did not own...
Farmland Blues: The Legacy of USDA Discrimination
...four hundred to two; he then corrected the number to one since he was no longer farming. In addition to teaching agriculture in high school, Long farmed, and he told...
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...
Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment
...activist who was concerned, most specifically, with a school built under a very significant mine-waste impoundment — and a very large coal silo built almost immediately behind this school. These activists had...
Resegregated Spaces: The Schools-to-Prisons Pipeline
...and from 1964 to 1975, worked as a field representative for the American Friends Service Committee on issues of voter registration, school desegregation, and economic development in the US South....
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,'Who Do You Think Of?": Part One
...created that wealth, in the form of free health care, free schooling as far as you ever wanted to go, inexpensive good food, cheap housing, recreation of all sorts, books,...
Undoing the Voting Rights Act
...cast their ballots.8Hearings before the Subcommittee Number 5 of the Judiciary Committee, House of Representatives, Eighty-ninth Congress, on H.R. 6400, March 18, 19, 23, 24, 25, 30, 31, and April 1,...
LiFT Art Salon: Gallery 72
...Atlanta's history, politics, and the arts converge ... [They are] responsible for some of the most prominent aural and visual aesthetics that have come to define the South."1 Fahamu Pecou, phone...