Open Access Week: The HathiTrust Ruling and Fair Use
...challenge to the access and preservation of library books on the blog as a part of our contribution to spreading awareness (and celebrating!) this week. On October 10, Harold Baer,...
Dancing Around the "Glaring Light of Television": Black Teen Dance Shows in the South
When Chuck Willis released his single "Betty and Dupree" in 1958, he and Atlantic Records wanted to keep teenagers across the country dancing the Stroll. Willis's "C. C. Rider" (1957)...
Vernacular and Universal Prejudice
...correspondent then expresses his judgment against affirmative action, or constitutional provisions for the reservation of a quota of educational and political positions for people from lower-caste backgrounds. "There are other...
The X-Codes: A Post-Katrina Postscript
...honor: Part historic preservation, part act of defiance, the spray-painted markings of Katrina rescue workers remain prominently displayed on many reoccupied New Orleans homes." New Orleans Times-Picayune, July 24, 2007....
"Looking Back and Moving Forward": The Records of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference at Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library
...and unedited production transcripts. Feminists often expressed reservations and concerns about the position of women within SCLC. In the unedited transcript of an interview recorded in Boston on November 1,...
Authorship in Africana Studies
...culture, language, or religious belief system worthy of preservation was applied as enslavers instituted the practice of erasing African cultures by imposing European customs and values. It was believed that...
Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery: From Slavery to Segregation
...a military reservation did not make them residents of the state of Virginia. Despite their activism, black people could not control the burial of their race at Arlington. Leaders like...
New Histories of Environmental Activism: A Review of Rethinking the American Environmental Movement
...nature preservation. This builds on important recent work in nineteenth-century environmental history, such as Catherine McNeur's Taming Manhattan and Carl Zimring's Clean and White, and buttresses the argument for long...
Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg
...idiom that celebrated the artists and their music. Virtually all of the concerts sold out and were videotaped for historic preservation. They now form part of the Center's archives. The...
Along the Ulcofauhatche: Of Sorrow Songs and "Dried Indian Creek"
...manager of the Historic and Cultural Preservation Department of the Muscogee Nation, notes that the Mvskoke spelling of the river would be: "orko ofv hvcce," meaning Pawpaw ("Orko," pronounced oth-go), river, or...