Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...context, the growth of advanced producer services benefited only certain segments of the labor force, while increasing numbers joined the contingent workforce. Handsomely compensated financiers, technocrats, entrepreneurs, and other mid-to-upper-level...
Counterblast: How the Atlanta Temple Bombing Strengthened the Civil Rights Cause
...hours later, in Jacksonville, Florida, the Jewish Community Center survived a similar bomb attack.5Southern Jewish Weekly, May 2, 1958; Richmond Afro-American, May 3, 1958. Synagogues across the South immediately intensified...
Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
...style—often referred to as Piedmont blues—that "encompasses the East Coast from Florida to Maryland, stretching westward through the Piedmont, the Appalachian Mountains, and the Ohio River Valley to central Kentucky...
Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery: From Slavery to Segregation
...was a common situation throughout the antebellum South. Thomas Jefferson may be the most famous transgressor with Sally Hemings, but he had company. Historians place the number of mulattoes in...
A Horrible, Beautiful Beast
...color, hem people in and hold them down or provide the limbs from which their bodies dangle. Grass spikes upward like weapons or limbs. River banks launch ships made of...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...children who have suffered the most have stumps for limbs, tumorous skulls, gnawed mouths, empty eye sockets, and metal bars sticking out of their trunks. Blood- and pus-resembling liquid oozes...
Our Backward Revolution
...number of lawsuits challenging these tax-exempt segregated schools, a policy eventually affirmed by the Supreme Court in Bob Jones v. United States (1983). Right-wing Republican activists like Paul Weyrich claimed...
Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South
...Montgomery to Birmingham; from Birmingham to Atlanta; from Atlanta down the west coast of Florida to Key West and up the east coast of Florida to Savannah and then home...
Roads covered with sand, Navarre Beach, Florida, 2005
Cover of darkness, Gasparilla invasion, Tampa, Florida, 2006