"Rights Still Being Righted": Scottsboro Eighty Years Later
...school teacher from Chicago; the local Jackson County, Alabama, Commission Chair; the state of Alabama’s tourism director; and nearly one hundred fifty more. Each person had a compelling reason for...
Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South
...and the Black Shirts of Italy" (a line that, surprisingly, was not frequently quoted in other reviews). Even though Daniels was "almost always fair-minded and sympathetic" towards African Americans, Brown...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
Introduction Buenaventura Lakes, Florida. Data from the 2010 Census, Hispanic population according to county. Map courtesy of Southern Spaces. One of the largest Puerto Rican enclaves in Greater Orlando, Buenaventura...
Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
...issue, the right wing talk radio people get all the airtime they want, but spread misinformation. I believe that before you take any stance on immigration, get to know an...
"The Choctaw Miracle": A Review of Katherine Osburn's Choctaw Resurgence in Mississippi
...home to firms producing equipment for unmanned aircraft and military vehicles. Irony abounds: Because of the various sovereign rights that Great Society Democrats and others recognized in Indian country, Choctaws were...
No Country for Old Hippies: Jason Mellard's Progressive Country
...antidote to the 'vanishing' of LBJ" from the national stage. Enacting the redneck hippie, Nelson could "combine iconic Texasness and the airs of modern progressiveness" (163). What is significant about...
Counterblast: How the Atlanta Temple Bombing Strengthened the Civil Rights Cause
...received a financial donation for repair work from an unexpected source. The black inmates of a local prison asked the chaplain to pass on a collective contribution to the building...
Hillbilly Records, Zulu Yodels, and the Sounds of a Global South
Presentation Part 2: Nunn discusses how Rodgers’ music was appropriated and recontextualized in South Africa and Kenya in the 1930’s and 1940’s Part 3: Erich Nunn, Selected questions and answers About the...
Queering Southern Gospel: A Review of Douglas Harrison's Then Sings My Soul
...became a gospel song writer and businessman along with Ruebush (50–51). In 1866, the pair created "Ruebush & Kieffer," a gospel tune book publishing company at Singers Glen, Rockingham County,...
Ireland’s First Sacred Harp Convention: “To Meet To Part No More”
...sight-reading that spread westward from Boston through the northeastern United States. A pair of New York-based songbook compilers introduced the use of shape-notes in 1801.1The title itself of William Little...