Negotiating Gender Lines: Women's Movement across Atlanta Mosques
...of a substantial number of prosperous black Atlantans, we might imagine that African American Muslims are more likely to live in Atlanta than in Chicago in the same neighborhoods or...
The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance
...O'Toole, The Spanish War: An American Epic 1898 (New York: W. W. Norton, 1984), 196. Fitzhugh Lee was the other appointee. Union veteran McKinley recognized that appointments of former Confederates...
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...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Two
...in the US—to be white people descended from Scot-Irish, emigrants, fleeing poverty in Europe, moving from the eastern seaports of the US further south and east, looking for cheap land —...
States' Rights Resurgent: The Attack on the Voting Rights Act
...the United States, due process and equal protection of the laws, House apportionment based on "the whole number of persons," and citizens' right to vote without regard to "race, color,...
Good-Bye to All That?
...NY: Arlington House, 1969), 468, 286. That memo has been the driving Republican strategy from Phillips through Lee Atwater and on to Karl Rove. With the added lift-off furnished by many...
Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg
...Race, Representation, and African American Culture, 1892–1938, eds. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Gene Andrew Jarrett (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2007), 287–297. Victoria Earle Matthews, poet, novelist, journalist,...
Stormy Banks and Sweet Rivers: A Sacred Harp Geography
...a limited number of tunes. Singing schools emerged to teach lay-persons the basics of reading and performing music. These schools operated independently of any congregation or denomination and were run...
Cajun South Louisiana
...Zydeco music among African Americans in the area. 1900s Musicians in Cajun band contest, National Rice Festival, Crowley, Louisiana. Photograph by Russell Lee, 1938. Courtesy of Farm Security Administration/Office of...
Bioregional Approach to Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta
...Faulkner, Big Woods: The Hunting Stories (Originally published in New York: Random House, 1955; New York: Vintage International, 1994), [166]. As more dependable levees for the protection of croplands and...