Hillside Refuge: Tornado Shelters in Northeast Mississippi
...Stand at The Beverly Laurel Motel" in Los Angeles, California. Her work is part of several university art curriculums in Milan, Italy and Oxford, Mississppi. Erin is currently living in...
Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
...WDBJ in Roanoke, Virginia, offered justifications for its programming in the public interest. The station noted the track record of its radio operation as an "important medium of cultural expression...
Enslaved Labor and Building the Smithsonian: Reading the Stones
...listed in the 1848 inventory, so it is possible that their escape attempt was successful.11Perhaps twenty-three-year-old George Boman, mentioned in the 1831 Runaway Ad, is the same person as the...
Still Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease
...legal presumptions, and other issues, this conflict over the definition and causation of black lung is intensely political: it involves the ideological content of medicine's view of disease, including the...
Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
...1900. In an early 1930s interview with the ethnomusicologist John Work III, Rainey notes that she first heard blues at a tent show in a small Missouri town in 1902.21While...
An Excerpt from Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
...in Helper's writings that can assist us in detecting the invisible but discernible presence of the Siamese Twins in his racial imagination. First, he was obsessed with the Chinese in...
Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment
...Challenge to Us All to Continue Our Quest and Pursuit of Justice. Information Moore’s Ford Bridge Lynching is the last unsolved mass lynching in US History! $35,000 Reward for info...
Love and Death at Second-Line
...was man-to-man — a turf war over beer sales, I'd learn later. I was amazed with how many terms for street shootings we have in New Orleans. Though I knew...
Congregation
...sign my name in the book, write R0470—his number— and agree to a search, I stand as if I would make a snow angel in the air, and the woman...
Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans
...City in the late Twenties, were more anecdotal reinvention than anything else. It is impossible to read them without concluding that Saxon had spent an idyllic childhood on this or...