Negotiating Gender Lines: Women's Movement across Atlanta Mosques
...for economic gains. Although income does play a role in residential patterns, it is more in terms of dividing poor and middle-class blacks than integrating blacks and whites.2Larry Keating, Atlanta:...
The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance
...monuments and landmarks, as well as remnants of a Civil War fort and rifle pit. A visit to the Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama painting on display in Grant Park is...
Whatwuzit?: The 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics Reconsidered
...Atlanta was voted number two in Fortune's 1995 'Best Cities for Business' list, the city also ranks number two in the nation in income disparity between blacks and whites, number...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Two
...in the US—to be white people descended from Scot-Irish, emigrants, fleeing poverty in Europe, moving from the eastern seaports of the US further south and east, looking for cheap land —...
States' Rights Resurgent: The Attack on the Voting Rights Act
...and by allowing states to treat enslaved blacks as non-persons or chattel property—while counting them as three-fifths of a person for purposes of apportioning voting power among the states in...
Good-Bye to All That?
...election, I heard enough angry remarks from voters, many bearing all the marks of poverty (or barely hanging on to middle class), to become persuaded there is little future here...
Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg
...centralize all literature written by "colored people." To achieve this objective, the Exchange would establish a union list of books by and about blacks by asking all known "Negro book...
Stormy Banks and Sweet Rivers: A Sacred Harp Geography
...la, fa, so, la, mi). This system became popular for use both in the singing schools and in songbooks. Although numerous books were printed with shape notes, none have had...
Still under the Influence: The Bioregional Origins of the Hub City Writers Project
...college histories, books of old photographs, a group-written local mystery novel, and collections of radio columns. There have also been a number of "nature" books, including a history of the...
Cajun South Louisiana
...the Canary Islands, and such Native American tribes as the Houma, Bayou Goula, and Choctaw. A big aligator, about 800 lbs. Photograph by ST Blessing. Courtesy of The Miriam and...