"Out Yonder on the Road": Working Class Self-Representation and the 1939 Roadside Demonstration in Southeast Missouri
...white families, and three for African American families. Although African Americans had led the roadside demonstration, as well as the negotiations with the FSA and the state of Missouri, they...
From Arkansas with Love: Evangelical Crisis Management and Southern (White) Gospel Music
...of "evangelical" follows George Marsden's, denoting Protestant thought and action shaped by Reformed theology. Today it designates right-leaning North American Protestantism defined in large part by its opposition to cultural,...
Goin' to Chicago and African American "Great Migrations"
...Great Migration. Between 1916 and 1970, six million African Americans left the cotton fields and segregation of the rural South for northern, midwestern, and western cities, changing the American cultural...
McGirt v. Oklahoma: Implications of the 2020 Supreme Court Decision for Native America
...and Jim Burgess at a Green Corn event that was scantly attended, as far as people in the ring. It was a baptism by fire in the sense that we...
Bioregional Approach to Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta
...from 30 to 40 miles in breadth at its northern end to 150 miles at the river's mouth in present-day Louisiana. It has been created by the meandering Mississippi River...
Voting Rights, the Supreme Court, and the Persistence of Southern History
...monumental impact on the voting rights of African Americans and on the nation's faith in its democratic promise. Since 1965 Section 5 has required the states of Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana,...
The Black Belt
...those parts of northern cities having heavy African American populations. Making the 1927 journey described in Black Boy (American Hunger), Richard Wright traveled from Mississippi and Tennessee to arrive among tens...
Along the Ulcofauhatche: Of Sorrow Songs and "Dried Indian Creek"
...the river, while the river gave them life and shelter." Years later, J.P. and Mark walked along stretches of the river, but could find no trace of the old settlement...
Reckoning with Enslavement
...The project released its database of descendants in May 2019 with American Ancestors by the New England Historic Genealogical Society (see the GU272 Descendants, 1785–2000 database, www.americanancestors.org/search/databasesearch/2756/gu272-descendants-1785-2000). Third, historian Sharon...
St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History
...T-shirt shops and ice cream parlors. Sightseers ride trolleys, visit wax museums and the original Ripley's Believe It or Not, patronize "authentically old" and recently constructed sites. The Excelsior Museum...