Race, Capitalism, and the Rise and Fall of Black Beach Communities
...coast, the establishment of Shell Island, in Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, as a leisure destination for black professionals, sent local whites into a panic. Orange County, California officials conspired with...
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...
The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation
...continue beyond the first half of 2010. From June 2009 through March 2010, the number of jobless workers continued to grow in the South and the West. The number of...
Counterblast: How the Atlanta Temple Bombing Strengthened the Civil Rights Cause
...a year earlier. Their target was Temple Beth-El in Charlotte, North Carolina. On November 11, 1957, the caretaker discovered six sticks of dynamite concealed at the rear of the synagogue...
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...
Southern Football, African American Athletes, and the Relative Decline of the Big Ten
...its schools recruited talented African American athletes earlier than a number of other power conferences, most notably, of course, those in the South. Before the early 1970s, a minuscule number...
Toxic Knowledge: A Review of Baptized in PCBs
...the town's industrial capacity and access to natural resources and cheap labor. As Spears notes, Anniston was founded as an experiment during Reconstruction and by the 1880s had been dubbed...
Desegregation, Delaware, and Civil Rights Liberalism: A Review of Brett Gadsden's Between North and South
...Senator Joe Biden and North Carolina's Senator Jesse Helms in debates over federally-mandated school desegregation in the North are especially instructive in this regard. In sum, Between North and South...
A Field Guide to Northeast Alabama
A Field Guide to Northeast Alabama Jake Adam York reads the poem "Gone With the Wind." Jake Adam York reads the poem "At Cornwall Furnace." Jake Adam York reads the...
Mississippi: State of Confession
...of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North (New York: Random House, 2008); James Ralph, Northern Protest: Martin Luther King, Jr., Chicago, and the Civil Rights Movement...