The Other Side of Paradise: Glimpsing Slavery in the University's Utopian Landscapes
...to the memory of Bob Hammond 1858 to 1923 and Billy Mitchell 1886 to 1958 Who together contributed 95 years Of faithful and efficient service to "Old Emory" Dedicated June...
Bodies and Souls
...feel the challenges of life and complexity of relationships in their own way. In 2006, Mississippi had one of the lowest number of physicians per capita in the nation (177...
Navigating Jim Crow: A Review of Adolph L. Reed's The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
...they all acknowledged one another."6Reed, 92–93. In his own family, an adult with light skin color occasionally posed as white to get some prized local delicacy or quicker service from...
Visions for Sustainable Agriculture in Cuba and the United States: Changing Minds and Models through Exchange
...offer services to tourists on the street—ranging from help finding the "best" nearby restaurant to sexual favors. Nearly all Cubans are underemployed, even though most are better educated and receive...
Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death
...Splenetic Disposition." Richardson's congregation, he says, refused to allow him to introduce Watts's hymns or the Lord's Prayer in services, but he used both in his family devotions "to the...
Three Black Towns: An Excerpt from Black Landscapes Matter
...Regional boycotts, in 1952, of service stations and restrooms refusing to serve Black people were organized in Mound Bayou.3Peter Brown, "Strike City, Mississippi," Anarchy 7, no. 2 (1967): 33–37. And,...
"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...an opossum bounty will "protect negro labor and revive their languid interest in the best government."32"Possums and Protection," Atlanta (GA) Constitution, Sept. 20, 1882, 4. Because opossums destroyed crops and...
Returning Home, Saxon Mills
...2011 by The University of Georgia Press. Other recent poetry and prose books include The Dead Father Poems (Horse & Buggy Press, 1999), The Best of the Kudzu Telegraph (Hub...
McGirt v. Oklahoma: Implications of the 2020 Supreme Court Decision for Native America
...sided with the Confederacy. There were a disproportionate number of Creek leaders who had close ties to the Deep South: economic relationships, cultural influences, and, to some degree, plantation systems....
Family Forestry in Twiggs County, Georgia / Live in Macon at the Douglass Theatre
...number one on Billboard's Pop charts and included "Ramblin' Man" and "Jessica." Leavell recorded two more albums before the Allmans disbanded. Emerging from the break-up with his rock/jazz/blues fusion group...