Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
...Press of Virginia, 1999). On Prince Edward County, see The Saturday Evening Post, April 29, 1961, the Christian Science Monitor, April 5, 1962, and The Nation, November 14, 1966. On...
University of Texas Press and Southern Spaces Katrina Bookshelf Series Collaboration
...catastrophe by any standard. Some 1,800 persons were killed outright. More than a million people were forced to relocate, many for the remainder of their lives. A city of 500,000...
Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black
...gets the worst room and it is seldom well lighted or clean."2Charles W. Chesnutt, "The White and the Black," Boston Evening Transcript, March 20, 1901, 13. The "Colored Waiting Room"...
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...
Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
...Bastin, Red River Blues: The Blues Tradition in the Southeast (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1986), 151. Left, Georgia Fife and Drum Band, Waverly Hall, Georgia, 1969. Right, Bud Grant,...
Crosses, Flowers, and Asphalt: Roadside Memorials in the US South
...memorials, for the most part, people maintain their personal practices of memorial creation. Roadside memorials have faced a number of legal challenges, as state department of transportation officials and legislative...
Farmland Blues: The Legacy of USDA Discrimination
...FHA offices and are well documented.3Welchel Long, interview by Lu Ann Jones, April 16, 1987, Elbert County, Georgia, box 5559, Farm Credit 1-2, General Correspondence, 1906–1976, Records of the Secretary...
The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi
...with the cost of flights and the initial recovery period in a hotel, it was cheaper to do so there than in the United States. Hearing her story, Ash insisted...
A Woman's Work: Jim Crow Modernity and the Remaking of the Carceral State
...Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Rosetta Records, 1987. Bottom, Portrait of Bessie Smith, February 3, 1936. Photograph by Carl Van Vechten. Courtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, loc.gov/item/2004663572. Extending...
Just a number, Old Bryce Hospital Cemetery, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 2007