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...
Navigating Jim Crow: A Review of Adolph L. Reed's The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
Review In this short book, distinguished political scientist Adolph L. Reed, Jr. offers remembrances from his early life below the Mason-Dixon line as a member of the last African American...
The Bulletin—December 20, 2012
...himself from ruling on a case alleging that the state Republican Party "improperly limited" the influence of African American and other minority voters in North Carolina in the latest round...
The Dispossessions of Appalachia: A Review of Ramp Hollow
Review The yeoman farmer is a central figure in debates over the historical dispossessions that created the place we now call Appalachia. For historians like Ron Eller, these self-sufficient small...
Voting Rights and Southern Legislatures Post-Shelby County v. Holder
...History"), changes to voting laws in southern states have been employed by legislators to deny African Americans and other minorities the franchise across the US South. Suitts's piece describes what...
Race, Capitalism, and the Rise and Fall of Black Beach Communities
...in US political development. About the Author Brett Gadsden is an associate professor of African American Studies at Emory University where he specializes in African American history and civil rights....
"I Used That Katrina Water To Master My Flow": Rap Performance, Disaster, and Recovery in New Orleans
...the Deep South: "NOLA Hip-hop Archive," http://www.nolahiphoparchive.com. The Amistad Research Center is the nation's oldest, largest, and most comprehensive independent archive specializing in African American history: "Amistad Research Center," http://www.amistadresearchcenter.org....
Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South
...words of prominent critic Malcolm Cowley, "a new art."47Malcolm Cowley, Review of You Have Seen Their Faces, New Republic, 24 November 1937, 78. Of course, documentary books with photographs were not a...
Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
...style—often referred to as Piedmont blues—that "encompasses the East Coast from Florida to Maryland, stretching westward through the Piedmont, the Appalachian Mountains, and the Ohio River Valley to central Kentucky...
Rethinking the Geography of Lynching
...BlackPast.Org: An Online Reference Guide to African American History, accessed October 9, 2013, http://www.blackpast.org/1899-reverend-d-graham-some-facts-about-southern-lynchings. In the late nineteenth century and through the twentieth century, Rev. Graham's perception of lynching as...