Atlanta's Charis Books and More: Histories of a Feminist Space
...that she didn't know very much about what to order for gay men or lesbians. Barbara felt they knew exactly what they were doing: they were providing books for people...
Shades of Violence: Jim Crow Justice and Black Resistance in the Depression-Era South
...notes the role of US communists and allied labor radicals in promoting the argument, as the Southern Worker contended, that "the police, the courts, and the 'law enforcing' machinery are...
The Supreme Court Is Overturning Brown v. Board of Education
...no misunderstanding about what this case means in regard to religion: states are now free to finance private schools that discriminate against students on the basis of students’ religions. As...
The Carolina Piedmont
...that connected mountains with coast. Faced with increasing white numbers and hostility, as well as the ravages of smallpox and the occupation of their familiar territory, natives desperately sought strategies...
Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion
...black people the very rights or recognition of kinship—Indians were described as free people who could potentially be incorporated into the US national family, a process that in turn mandated that...
The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi
...I said with emphasis, "she's doing all right." "Well," she hesitated, "that's good. Please tell her I love her." That's the story that convinced Ash Kotak that Jheri and her...
Lift Every Voice and Sing: The Quilts of Gwendolyn Ann Magee
...medium through which my art finds expression and the subject matter that it articulates. I know that the quilt form usually is associated with feelings of warmth, comfort, serenity and...
Reckoning with Enslavement
...to change what happened long ago, but we can change the way we understand what happened and what it means to us in the present.3A central aspect of the approach...
"Our Country"—Benjamin E. Wise's William Alexander Percy
...Will Percy—was that an ongoing and widely audible cultural discussion had taken root. A new vocabulary was in place. What in the nineteenth century was "the love that dare not...
Three Black Towns: An Excerpt from Black Landscapes Matter
After the end of the Civil War, recently freed Black people endeavored to create their own communities. During Reconstruction, and with newfound access to political and economic power, Black towns...