Voting Rights, the Supreme Court, and the Persistence of Southern History
...procedures for the same purpose. Ariel view of marchers crossing the Edmund Pettus bridge during the march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, 1965. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division,...
Race, Capitalism, and the Rise and Fall of Black Beach Communities
...of Ida. B. Wells, 1892–1900 (Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 1996); W. Fitzhugh Brundage, Lynching in the New South: Georgia and Virginia, 1880–1940 (Urbana: University of Illinois, 1993). Kahrl points to a...
Whole Cloth Chintz Wedding Quilt [ca 1850]
...Benson, ca. 1850, 96 X 85 inches. Cotton fabrics, moderately thick cotton batting, backed with plain white sheeting. Quilted by hand in diagonal crosshatch. Bound by turning backing to front....
Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment
..."The Genesis of Downtown: Logan-Welch West Virginia Urban Coalfield Life, The Photographs of Russell Lee and Earl Dotter, 1946 and 2006" and "Our Future in Retrospect: Coal Miner Health in...
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...Carolina Press, 1935, 1991 reprint). or the Farm Security Administration (FSA) images of Walker Evans, Elmer Johnson, and Marion Post Wolcott, or photojournalists' frontline depictions of the War on Poverty,...
Psychiatry in the Wake: Racism and the Asylumed South
..."A Virginia mental institution for Black patients, opened after the Civil War, yields a trove of disturbing records," Washington Post, March 29, 2021, https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/black-asylum-files-reveal-racism/2021/03/26/ebfb2eda-6d78-11eb-9ead-673168d5b874_story.html. The challenges of the psychiatric archive...
"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...
Confederates in Mexico: Lost Cause or New South Vanguard?
...His Head": Slavery and the Texas-Mexico Border, 1810–1860," Journal of Social History 37, No. 3 (Spring 2004): 709–723. While employment by white colonists—often former slave owners—brought an unspecified number of...
North Carolina: A State of Shock
...Moral Monday demonstration, Raleigh, North Carolina, July 29, 2013. Photograph by Cristóbal Palmer. Courtesy of Cristóbal Palmer. On April 29, the North Carolina NAACP organized the first of a series...
The Bulletin—March 20, 2013
...which did not clarify whether "one person one vote" requires districts to be measured by number of people or by number of eligible voters. A recent New York Times article...