Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
...celebration," as whites and blacks remained unknown to each other across the divides of separated societies and an anguished past.67Ibid., 391, 397. At the commemoration day ceremonies for the Weeping...
University of Texas Press and Southern Spaces Katrina Bookshelf Series Collaboration
...was nearly emptied of life. If measured by the number of lives it claimed, Katrina does not qualify as the worst disaster in our history. But it was far and away...
Counterblast: How the Atlanta Temple Bombing Strengthened the Civil Rights Cause
Atlanta Temple Bombing On the morning of Sunday, October 12, 1958, shortly after 3:30 a.m., an explosion ripped through the Reform Temple on Peachtree Street in Atlanta. Although no one...
The Makers of the Sacred Harp
...In the case of the “revival spiritual songs” that began to appear in great numbers in 1840s tunebooks, including The Sacred Harp, Steel speculates that some may have had their...
Mapping the "Big Minutes": Visualizing Sacred Harp's Geographic Coalescence and Expansion, 1995–2014
...Valley Singers," Sacred Harp Publishing Company Newsletter 2, no. 3 (December 31, 2013), http://originalsacredharp.com/2013/12/31/there-are-more-singings-now-than-ever-before-hugh-mcgraw-addresses-the-harpeth-valley-singers; Karlsberg, "Folklore's Filter," 105–12. In this post we complicate these narratives, drawing on a newly augmented...
"It's Being Black and Poor": Race, Class, and Desegregation at Pebblebrook High
...as a result of desegregation, only 37% of black students attended mostly black schools, by the year 2000, that number had grown to 69%, quickly approaching the 1968 numbers for...
Just a number, Old Bryce Hospital Cemetery, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 2007
Negotiating Gender Lines: Women's Movement across Atlanta Mosques
...of a substantial number of prosperous black Atlantans, we might imagine that African American Muslims are more likely to live in Atlanta than in Chicago in the same neighborhoods or...
The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance
...North, New York Times, September 3, 1864. Northern Civil War commanders made the capture of Confederate cities—specifically Atlanta and Richmond—and the crippling or destroying of the armies defending them, the major...
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...