Unquiet Emmett Till
...Freedom Struggle is the latest installment in the growing shelf of books about the Till murder and its aftermath. (Truth in reviewing: I'm at work on a book about Till...
James Holland, Riverkeeper: Environmental Protection along the Altamaha
...to take, returning the rest to forage through the delta mud. The numbers in the coolers spoke: they were falling, 300 pounds, 225, 175. Every year they fell—he remembers 1,500...
The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation
...continue beyond the first half of 2010. From June 2009 through March 2010, the number of jobless workers continued to grow in the South and the West. The number of...
African American Suburban Development in Atlanta
...stark divides Figures Referenced: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 6 About Andrew Wiese Andrew Wiese is a historian of American urban and social history. He received...
"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
...often used to condemn homosexuality.2Bible passages included in Convoluted’s web: Genesis 19, Leviticus 18:22, Leviticus 20:13, Mark 10:6–9, Romans 1:26–32, Romans 13:8–10, 1 Corinthians 6:9–11,17–20, 1 Corinthians 7:2, 1 Timothy...
Words Like a Fire: MARBL's Kennedy and Sons Collection
...Binding," in Talking the Boundless Book: Art, Language, and the Book Arts, ed. Charles Alexander (Minneapolis: Minnesota Center for Book Arts, 1995), 47. Kennedy's posters, on which he literally spells...
Beyond Fairyland: Writing and Curating Queer Miami
...Mississippi of the Homosexual and the Politics of Dialectics," in Lonely Hunters: An Oral History of Lesbian and Gay Southern Life, 1948–1968 (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1997). Sears's rhetorical move...
Undoing the Voting Rights Act
...3112, H.R. 3198, H.R. 3473, and H.R. 3948, 97th Congress, May 6, 7, 13, 19, 20, 27, 28; and June 3, 1981; Report of the Subcommittee on the Constitution of...
Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
...Press of Virginia, 1999). On Prince Edward County, see The Saturday Evening Post, April 29, 1961, the Christian Science Monitor, April 5, 1962, and The Nation, November 14, 1966. On...
Global Lives, Local Struggles: Latin American Immigrants in Atlanta
...centuries. This book won the President's Book Award for the best new book manuscript from the Social Science History Association and was named a Choice Outstanding Academic Book of 1996....