Southern Football, African American Athletes, and the Relative Decline of the Big Ten
Big Ten football has received plenty of criticism in recent years, much of it well deserved. The conference clearly isn't what it used to be, and Marc Tracy recently identified...
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
...as a "brilliant architect" in SCR ID # 1-8-0-16-5-1-1, Sovereignty Commission Online, Mississippi Department of Archives & History Digital Collections, http://mdah.state.ms.us/bugle/sovcom/, accessed December 1, 2006. Initially based in Jeffersonville, Indiana,...
The Makers of the Sacred Harp
...Rooting musical practices in the lives of individuals and individual creativity in broader cultural context, The Makers of the Sacred Harp is an indispensable study of the countless acts of...
States' Rights Resurgent: The Attack on the Voting Rights Act
...it saw no evil. For example, in 1898 it upheld Mississippi's new state constitutional provisions that resulted in disfranchising almost all African Americans by concluding that the provisions "do not...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Two
...the most notorious terror methods of white ruling class interests—there was continued resistance. Well-known to many is the anti-lynching campaign of Ida B. Wells-Barnett, for instance. Born a slave in...
Just a number, Old Bryce Hospital Cemetery, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 2007
Whatwuzit?: The 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics Reconsidered
...two in the percentage of the population living in public housing, number two in violent crimes per capita, number two in total crimes per capita, and number nine in the...
Mapping the "Big Minutes": Visualizing Sacred Harp's Geographic Coalescence and Expansion, 1995–2014
...initially excluded to ensure that page numbers included in the minutes reliably indexed specific songs in The Sacred Harp. The exclusions also improve the representativeness of the minutes, which feature...
The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance
...to be obliterated in the post–World War II era by urban growth.27Ibid., 52. Fort Walker remains a notable Atlanta Civil War site, protected by its location in a municipal park...