The Civil War and Emancipation 150 Years On
...Center, Richmond, Virginia, c. 1965. Courtesy of the Valentine Richmond History Center. The messages were clearer fifty years ago, at the time of the centennial. Then, in the early 1960s,...
Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
...region is, in essence, the geographical center of the Deep South. There are a total of eighteen counties that lie within the nucleus of the Lower Chattahoochee Valley region—seven in...
Reframing Resistance: A Review of Freedom Now!
...white oppression—as often they were—conveying the message that the power and keys to change rested with interventions of white citizens. "Fire Bomb Watch, Mileston, Mississippi, June 1, 1964." Community center...
Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
Introduction Cyrille Bissette (1795–1858). Print by François Le Villain originally published in Joseph Elzéar Morénas's Précis historique de la traite des noirs et de l'esclavage colonial, contenant l'origine de la traite, ses progrès,...
"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...Alabama, 1880s. The man in the center (wearing the apron) is the owner of the business, and the man on the right is holding a large stick with a possum...
Cajun South Louisiana
...the Canary Islands, and such Native American tribes as the Houma, Bayou Goula, and Choctaw. A big aligator, about 800 lbs. Photograph by ST Blessing. Courtesy of The Miriam and...
August, 1959: Morning Service
Beside the open window on the cemetery side, I drowsed as Preacher Lusk gripped his Bible like a bat snagged from the pentecostal gloom. In that room where heat clabbered...
Family Forestry in Twiggs County, Georgia / Live in Macon at the Douglass Theatre
...performance venue in segregated Macon, the Douglass Theater operated as a movie house and a center for live entertainment, including vaudeville and eclectic musical acts. Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Duke...
Ungesund: Yellow Fever, the Antebellum Gulf South, and German Immigration
...University Press, 1999), 6–7. Jo Ann Carrigan, The Saffron Scourge: A History of Yellow Fever in Louisiana (Lafayette: Center for Louisiana Studies, 1994), 10–11; Mariola Espinosa, “The Question of Racial...
Psychiatry in the Wake: Racism and the Asylumed South
...racial differences continue to plague modern mental health services where Black and minority patients are over-diagnosed with psychotic disorders, underdiagnosed with depressive disorders, and continue to be underrepresented in service...