Race, Capitalism, and the Rise and Fall of Black Beach Communities
...was explicitly established as a destination that served to shield its residents from "the temptations of the city" (53). More elite African Americans established communities such as Highland Beach, just...
Counterblast: How the Atlanta Temple Bombing Strengthened the Civil Rights Cause
...planted outside the Conservative Beth-El synagogue in Birmingham on April 28, 1958, failed to explode when the fuse burnt out a minute away from the detonating caps. Just over twenty-four...
A Green Democratic Revolution
...asserted that social and economic justice cannot be separated from environmental justice. The election manifesto announced that Labour would create one million jobs in the UK to transform industry, energy,...
A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave
...and its auteur to garner several more golden statues. Just don't expect the drama to be confined to the movie itself. When McQueen went up to receive his honor at...
Mississippi: State of Confession
...Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) chapter president Vernon Dahmer by five Klansman: "They're [the state of Mississippi] just as much to blame as the Klansmen."3Robertson, "Civil Rights Sins, Curated by...
Music and Mobility on the Streets of New Orleans: A Review of Roll with It
...Magazine," Offbeat Magazine Lets Just Shut Frenchmen Street Down Comments, March 14, 2012, accessed December 19, 2014, http://www.offbeat.com/2012/03/14/lets-just-shut-frenchmen-street-down; Michael Welch, "Music Rights: An Educated Opinion on New Orleans' Noise Ordinances...
Making Space: A Review of Robert Paulett's An Empire of Small Places
Review Understanding the creation of social spaces in an unfamiliar landscape is, according to Robert Paulett, a productive way to account for eighteenth-century developments in the American Southeast, particularly in...
Glimpsing Andalusia in the O'Connor-Hester Letters
...and comparatively small furniture. The light is pale on the clay-colored walls (newly painted in 1959); the floorboards creak underfoot. Most things are just as O'Connor and her mother, Regina,...
Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta's Public Spaces
...built environment and the experiences of its inhabitants—mark the city's particularities. Increasing numbers of cars, trolleys, buses, and taxis enabled movement between downtown and suburbs; rural and urban areas; "colored"...
Lift Every Voice and Sing: The Quilts of Gwendolyn Ann Magee
...of fancy.2Edith Mayfield Wiggins, telephone conversation with author, July 10, 2014. Hers was a childhood surrounded by art publications and crafts in various media, and included museum trips to New...