Memorializing the Freedom Riders
...and St. Louis to New Orleans and St. Petersburg, Florida, from April to December 1961. Raymond Arsenault's 2006 book, Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice, gives the...
Unquiet Emmett Till
...such as James Hicks who covered the trial for several African American newspapers, Murray Kempton of the New York Post, and even Emmett's mom Mamie Till-Mobley, praised the prosecutors. The...
COVID-19 Vaccine and the Right to Public Health
...leadership. As the number of Brasilians dying from Covid increased to over 600,000 in 2021, citizens largely ignored their president, eschewed their free choice option to not vaccinate, and lined...
Sonic Zora in Florida
...newer version of the Soundscriber Hurston would have used, New York, 1944. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Image in Public Domain. Bottom, Zora Neale Hurston with Rochelle French and Gabriel Brown,...
African American Community Building in Atlanta: A Guide to the Study of Race in America
...study of how these new relationships worked themselves out, how an urban area became the frontier of racial policy in the New South. Atlanta lies in the southwestern end of...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...fields to the kitchens of the New World."8Writing on the wall of the exhibit entrance at the Domino Sugar Factory in Brooklyn, New York. The exhibit consists of a gigantic...
"In the Neighborhood": Towards a Human Geography of US Slave Society
...Thought from Slavery to Freedom (New York: Oxford University Press, 1977). Community, after all, was a key word in the new social history. For revisionist historians "community" signaled a broad...
Ireland’s First Sacred Harp Convention: “To Meet To Part No More”
...the new singings in the United States have viewed them as a revival of earlier, locally lapsed practices. This view ties contemporary Sacred Harp singings in New England, the mid-Atlantic,...
African Americans in Atlanta: Community Building in a New South City
Community Building in a New South City Atlanta offers a sharp perspective of the Black experience in the urban South during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. The emergence of its...
Eggleston's South: "Always in Color"
...was panned by art critic Hilton Kramer, as "Perfectly banal, perhaps. Perfectly boring, certainly."2Hilton Kramer, "Art: Focus on Photo Shows," The New York Times, May 28, 1976, 62. The New...