Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
...about immigration policy. One woman in Cary, North Carolina, who had never done anything like this before, gave me a check for two thousand dollars to carry to Don Candelario....
Undoing the Voting Rights Act
...size of a violation can make a violation go away—that whenever a disparity can be proven to be small, it can be considered no disparity at all. So, if a...
The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation
...policies can assure an equal opportunity to learn for the growing numbers of our poorest children. Education can be one of the nation's most efficient and effective long-term investments to...
"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...among the darkeys" in order "to remain on good terms with Louisiana Republicans."120"Alligator Steak," The Caucasian (Shreveport, LA), Feb. 7, 1909, https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88064469/1909-02-07/ed-1/seq-8/. Subsequently, the Charlotte Observer called for Taft "to...
"Out Yonder on the Road": Working Class Self-Representation and the 1939 Roadside Demonstration in Southeast Missouri
...(Peter Wilderness), Case No. 101 (Walter Johnson), Case No. 72 (Ike Tripp), Case No. 41 (Daniel McClenton), Case No. 7 (Alonzo Julian), all in Folder "Tenant Farming, 1939-1944," Box 1,...
Race, Capitalism, and the Rise and Fall of Black Beach Communities
...flocked to commercial beach resorts like Carr's and Sparrow's Beach to enjoy sunbathing, beauty contests, carnival attractions, and a steady stream of black musical acts. African Americans who sought to take...
Making Space: A Review of Robert Paulett's An Empire of Small Places
...uses to organize his narrative. Edw. Crisp, Detail of A compleat description of the province of Carolina in 3 parts, the west part by Capt. Tho. Nairn, 1711. Library of...
Nascent Nations: A Review of Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South
...Indians' New World: Catawbas and Their Neighbors from European Contact through the Era of Removal (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1989). The unearthing of new archaeological information, as...
"It's Being Black and Poor": Race, Class, and Desegregation at Pebblebrook High
...treatment in recent scholarship on desegregation. In her history of desegregation in New Orleans, Liva Baker describes the white mothers, called the "cheerleaders," as carrying signs that read "If your...
The Crowd He Becomes
...his News. The photographer follows every one, cocked and ready to shoot, but his lens can't catch them all so he just stands, tracing their paths, he just stands, lost...