Whatwuzit?: The 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics Reconsidered
...Atlanta was voted number two in Fortune's 1995 'Best Cities for Business' list, the city also ranks number two in the nation in income disparity between blacks and whites, number...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Two
...South, and in the rural South. There were few towns, and few non-agrarian jobs available, and most Black people were farm workers. After Emancipation, the newly freed people needed land...
States' Rights Resurgent: The Attack on the Voting Rights Act
...self-protection, and the Federal Government will have become their enemy."5"Confederate States of America—Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union,"...
Good-Bye to All That?
...mirage in our political downward spiral. I've often felt depressed, most recently after the 2000, 2002, 2004, and 2010 elections. My usual response to disappointment has been to feverishly read...
Love and Death in Mississippi
...Salt Lake City, UT; San Francisco, CA; San Jose, CA; Santa Fe, NM; Seattle, WA; Tampa, FL; West Palm Beach, FL; and Wilton Manors, FL, have issued bans. Finally, the...
Oak Ridgidness: Lindsey Freeman’s Longing for the Bomb
...two hundred, only seventeen voted to remove the municipal gates. In Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs recounts how residents had become accustomed to "stockade life" and "feared...
The Black Civil Rights Movement on the Border
...May 1937. Photograph by Dorothea Lange. Courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, loc.gov/pictures/resource/fsa.8b31944. An ambitious and courageous professional and activist, Nixon's life and works rightfully deserve...
The Slaveholding Empire: Southerners, Federal Authority, and Slave Power Abroad
...a degree of influence on federal policies that outsized their demographic presence. Generations of historians have subsequently substantiated such claims.2The fullest account of the control slaveholders had on the federal...
Editors
...Film Festival, the International Film Festival Rotterdam, and other film festivals around the world. Hank Klibanoff Professor of Practice Creative Writing Program 537 S. Kilgo Circle Callaway Center N106 Atlanta,...
Keywords for Southern Studies: An Introduction
...the promise of a coherent and distinctive effort but whose constitutive features remain contested. Hey Y'all, November 10, 2012. Photograph courtesy of Flickr user Gregory Morris. Creative Commons license CC...