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...
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,"...
Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South
...that took him away from the helm of the News and Observer. Either way, he quickly embraced the idea of writing a book. How that book changed from a "prose...
An Excerpt from Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
...the doorway dressed in rough cotton. Each had a quid of tobacco in his mouth, each was barefooted. They stood in the doorway a minute or so, then waved good...
The Digital Yoknapatawpha Project
...to the Digital Yoknapatawpha Project. The project is still in development so any overview I provide now has to be provisional. The project continues to expand, often in ways that...
The Other Side of Paradise: Glimpsing Slavery in the University's Utopian Landscapes
...fence. Since the statue faces away from the road, and since the woods behind the cemetery are thickly overgrown, the only way nowadays to see the front of the statue...
Counterblast: How the Atlanta Temple Bombing Strengthened the Civil Rights Cause
...the repair fund from the Dallas County Citizens' Council in Selma, Alabama. Embarrassed to be associated in any way with the segregationist movement, Rothschild asked Mayor William B. Hartsfield to...
Sprinkle Creek, North Carolina
...NCDOT aerial marker indicating the highway right-of-way, Sprinkle Creek, NC, 1998. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Looking at I-26 from Dale and Lurethra Fluty’s yard, near the head of Sprinkle...
Undoing the Voting Rights Act
...than living Black people. In several states polling officials were all white, and ballots were numbered in such a way as to permit white officials to know how Black voters...
Nowhere [yet Everywhere] in the World: Cuban History and Sexuality in the Dramas of Abel González Melo
...the World (En ningún lugar del mundo). González Melo studied Theater Arts at the Universidad de las Artes de Cuba. He is the recipient of various prizes and awards for...