Negotiating Gender Lines: Women's Movement across Atlanta Mosques
...live the paradox of economic growth alongside urban blight in Atlanta. As Nadim Ali, a committed member of the Community Masjid mosque, told me, "We live in the West End...
Unquiet Emmett Till
...he was murdered look back at his death and the acquittal of his killers as a formative moment in their lives, from Anne Moody to Muhammad Ali, from Stokely Carmichael...
A Trumped-Up Dixie: White Southern Republicans and Immigration Reform
...currently blocks President Obama's executive order to provide a path to citizenship to almost four million illegal immigrants. Representatives from majority-white congressional districts in all states of the former Confederacy provide...
MARBL Presents Atlanta Intersections: Susannah Darrow on Arts Organizations in Atlanta
...Spaces, MARBL presents clips of the full interviews to spur conversations and encourage research on the featured topics. In this interview, Susannah Darrow, executive director and co-founder of the arts...
A Well-Tied Knot: Atlanta's Mobility Crisis and the 2012 T-SPLOST Debate
...black voters. Over the course of the next three years, the MARTA board invited its critics to the negotiating table and the system was reinvented as a genuine public service...
Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
...1907, Forest History Society archive. In the summer of 1906, one year after Theodore Roosevelt established the US Forest Service and appointed Gifford Pinchot to implement a conservationist policy,...
Bodies and Souls
...rural clinics affected everyday lives. Top, a patient has her blood pressure taken at the clinic in Jonestown, Bodies and Souls, 2005. Bottom, Sister Manette with a patient, Bodies and Souls,...
New Adventures in Tandem Ethnography
...the mundane, and found ourselves in the back of a fast food restaurant drinking Coors Light from bottles, chalking cues where we were the only customers. We ate crawfish among...
1108 Dynamite Hill
...in Atlanta, Jeff Drew's father, John (1908–1991), co-founded the Alexander Insurance Agency with the mission of providing affordable insurance to Black customers. While a Morehouse student, John Drew met Alfred...
Ungesund: Yellow Fever, the Antebellum Gulf South, and German Immigration
Introduction During the antebellum era, New Orleans became the second largest port of US immigration after New York City, leading hundreds of thousands of Germans to begin new lives at...