Crosses, Flowers, and Asphalt: Roadside Memorials in the US South
...of speed limits. The written legal code and the enforcement efforts do not always affect what one encounters on the highway. Despite the legal sanctioning of memorial plantings and state...
Counterblast: How the Atlanta Temple Bombing Strengthened the Civil Rights Cause
...as forty anti-Semitic groups operating in the South at the time of the black freedom struggle. Some of these organizations promoted their cause exclusively through propaganda. Others took more direct...
Sankofa Series: What Must Be Remembered
...down, look, and listen to archival materials that shape collective histories and their enduring legacies. Deriving its title from the Akan people of West Africa, the term Sankofa refers to...
Nannie's Stone: Appendices by Mark Auslander and Lisa Fager
...who may have later remarried a Charles Brown. Andrew and Susan Tinney's children included Susan (born 1851), who married Charles W. Jeffries, a sergeant in the US Army; James (born...
Bioregional Approach to Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta
...deposits of sand, silt, clay, and calcareous sediments left by the shifting courses of meandering rivers. Within the Yazoo basin, shallow water frequently covered a sizable portion of the floodplain...
"Rights Still Being Righted": Scottsboro Eighty Years Later
...nine young men should not be forgotten. Moreover, as many expressed, remembering Scottsboro could promote racial healing today, still a pressing need. The commemorative events centered on the Scottsboro Boys...
Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black
...trains, any shared coach was to be "divided by a partition, designated for the race to which such passenger belongs," while restaurants were subject to still more stringent regulations.19The Code...
Music and Mobility on the Streets of New Orleans: A Review of Roll with It
...recounts how Association members promoted laws and zoning practices that shut down bars and blocked live music, leading to fewer venues for brass bands and other New Orleans musicians. The...
Deep Ellum Blues
...ownership of all its public land, making the State of Texas the nation's largest land promoter, aside from Uncle Sam himself. And in Texas, no city was so conceived and...
Placeholder: Carolina Poems of Love and Labor
...for an international organization representing indigenous peoples. She studied at the Institute for American Indian Arts in Santa Fe and at Vermont College, where she completed an MFA in creative...