Voting Rights and Southern Legislatures Post-Shelby County v. Holder
Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., June 7, 2009. Photograph by Mark Fischer. Courtesy of Mark Fischer. As our bulletins have previously reported, legislatures in a number of southern states...
Good-Bye to All That?
...rights. From my perspective, neither of these Republican incumbents extensively campaigned. Lee McMinn (University of Texas graduate, retired Marine lieutenant colonel, Vietnam veteran/helicopter pilot with two graduate degrees and years...
Selma Bridge: Always Under Construction
...place forgotten since the mid-1960s by the GOP, except when persecuting voting rights activists. With McCain's dismal civil rights record throughout years in Congress, including his (later retracted) opposition to...
On Maps, Race, and Diasporic Self-Fashioning in Early Nineteenth-Century Brazil
...we return to the cover page of the Guia, at bottom right, we see his detailed guide for interpreting the symbols and designs on his maps. These conventions originally emerged...
Navigating Jim Crow: A Review of Adolph L. Reed's The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
...civil rights leader Aaron Henry, growing up under Jim Crow a generation earlier. As a boy, Henry repeatedly complained to his mother that the local white children were able to...
Whole Cloth Chintz Wedding Quilt [ca 1850]
...married Nancy Miller and they moved to Spartanburg District where Silas was a machinist and millwright. He set up a flour mill, sawmill, and a wool-carding mill in the North...
Besieged Terrain
...stickers in Kentucky. In 1980 the University of Kentucky proposed selling the mineral rights to Robinson Forest. Student protests prevented this, but later the rights were sold for outlying parcels....
No Place To Be Displaced: Katrina Response and the Deep South's Political Economy
...median for all groups—Blacks, Whites, and Hispanics. Hispanics in West Columbia appear to have both higher numbers in poverty and higher household incomes than Hispanics or Blacks in Columbia or...
Wherein the South Differs from the North: Naming Persons, Naming Places, and the Need for Visionary Geographies
...is natural to any one thinking that it is pleasant to be one.... Once in talking and saying that in America the best material is used in the cheapest things...
Returning Home, Saxon Mills
...carrying her clothes, my unborn sister, nothing left of marriage but the cheap ring. There was her father, Lonnie, the house painter, in Lantana. Lonnie, always drinking, laughing at poverty....