Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black
...of a number of nineteenth-century railroads whose proprietors wished to emphasize that their routes were more direct than those of competing roads. Black travelers described it in a discrimination complaint...
The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation
...continue beyond the first half of 2010. From June 2009 through March 2010, the number of jobless workers continued to grow in the South and the West. The number of...
Social Justice Environmentalism
...justice.3Mark Fiege, The Republic of Nature: An Environmental History of the United States (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2012), 320; Robert S. Emmett, Cultivating Environmental Justice: A Literary History of...
Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
...mulatto, found a more open-minded milieu with less racial prejudice where he could exercise liberties not allowed in antebellum New Orleans. In 1837, a black man living in the United...
Three Black Towns: An Excerpt from Black Landscapes Matter
...to Black people, the town was originally located on just over one hundred acres in what is now known as Greater Orlando.5United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service,...
Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
...infrastructure to prevent the immigrants from coming into the United States. I don't want to imagine the United States investing in technology would kill off any human being who even...
North Carolina: A State of Shock
...from any legal restraints (and public disclosure).21Michael S. Kang, "After Citizens United," Indiana Law Review 44, no. 243 (2010): 243–255. Whatever their differences, these corporate-funded groups are united by two...
Southern Football, African American Athletes, and the Relative Decline of the Big Ten
...its schools recruited talented African American athletes earlier than a number of other power conferences, most notably, of course, those in the South. Before the early 1970s, a minuscule number...
"It's Being Black and Poor": Race, Class, and Desegregation at Pebblebrook High
...as a result of desegregation, only 37% of black students attended mostly black schools, by the year 2000, that number had grown to 69%, quickly approaching the 1968 numbers for...
Whatwuzit?: The 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics Reconsidered
...Atlanta was voted number two in Fortune's 1995 'Best Cities for Business' list, the city also ranks number two in the nation in income disparity between blacks and whites, number...