Color Photographs from the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information
John Vachon, Workers leaving Pennsylvania shipyards, Beaumont, Texas, 1943. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Color Photographs Collection, LC-USW36-839. Southern Spaces recently added six new images to the...
Flatlands in the Outlands: Photographs from the Delta and Bayou
...Baptist church surrounded by cotton fields, a culture rigidly stratified by race and class. Here history and memory cast shadows that recall a tragic past. Here generations of writers, folklorists,...
Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story
...vision of Louisiana in the documentary classic Louisiana Story. The making of that Louisiana story follows Flaherty's standard format. He created "narrative documentaries," what we might call today "docudramas." But...
"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,...
Katrina, One Year Later: Three Perspectives
...commencing this project, I did have one reservation: the fear of exploiting the suffering of others — a concern that was shared by both of my colleagues. The influx of...
Negotiating Gender Lines: Women's Movement across Atlanta Mosques
...Race, Class, and Urban Expansion (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2001), 8. The widening gap between poor and middle-class blacks reveals the persistence of race and class inequalities in the city....
Racial breakdown of the population of the fourteen Georgia counties in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley.
County White Alone, #, 2000 White Alone, %, 2000 Black Alone, #, 2000 Black Alone, %, 2000 Chattahoochee 8,643 58.08 4,453 29.92 Clay 1,290 38.43 2,030 60.47 Decatur 16,126...
Sprinkle Creek, North Carolina
...Sprinkle Creek with NCDOT geologist, Rick Lockamy, to conduct core rock sampling, Sprinkle Creek, NC, 2994. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. NCDOT geologist, Rick Lochamy, studying maps in preparation for...
DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
...of her neighbors put it, DDT was destroying a way of life, as it made small farms unsustainable and eroded the good health and cooperative spirit that were the backbone...
Mother Jones: Back in Alabama
...representatives of labor unions from across the country—longshoremen, flight attendants, municipal employees, as well as members of the United Mine Workers of America from West Virginia, Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana, Pennsylvania,...