Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Two
...of freed slaves as an opportunity for textile manufacturers to "organize at our own doors a colony—so to speak—that will be worth more to us than any of England's most...
States' Rights Resurgent: The Attack on the Voting Rights Act
...of Delegates announced an effort to promote a "Repeal Amendment" to the US Constitution to provide states with the collective power to nullify any act of Congress with which two-thirds...
Good-Bye to All That?
...the coverage. Two days after the election, in an attempt to avoid such depressing reflections, I went into my shop to catch up on one of my duties at the...
Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg
...of using collections to empower people and was further encouraged to do so by an admonition of one of my intellectual and political mentors, historian Lerone Bennett, Jr. He said,...
Stormy Banks and Sweet Rivers: A Sacred Harp Geography
...a limited number of tunes. Singing schools emerged to teach lay-persons the basics of reading and performing music. These schools operated independently of any congregation or denomination and were run...
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
...of Cajuns off the land and into working class jobs. This broke down isolation and led to more efforts to bring south Louisiana into the mainstream of US society. Supporters...
Bioregional Approach to Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta
...raising cotton in order to sell the cotton in order to make the land valuable enough to be worth spending money raising dykes to keep the River off of it."5William...
"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...tables of the whites. In some houses this superfluity was disposed of by placing a layer or more of oak or hickory sticks to the height of 3 or 4...
Hillside Refuge: Tornado Shelters in Northeast Mississippi
...number of reported tornadoes in the state each year is twenty-five, with sixty-two the highest number reported in a single year, and five the fewest. The average number of tornado-related...