Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
...Mayday, plattin' the pole, and then they'd have this certain kind of beat, this certain kind of sound…it's a good time sound. There's a lot of fingerpicking along with the...
LiFT Art Salon: Gallery 72
...Digital Good Times on racial dynamics in Atlanta’s technology scene. Together, these events introduced Gallery 72 as a vibrant canvas to a new audience. LiFT artist Tim Short discusses his artwork with two event attendees,...
Authorship in Africana Studies
...women especially, who find ourselves as artists woefully under-resourced in our diverse locations, nonetheless committed to developing what seems, at times, to be an impossible practice. To do this, I...
Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans
...to understand the critical acclaim. Its pages crackle with the nervous energy of good writing. No tour guide, before or since—and there have been several good ones—has done a better...
Ablaze: The 1849 White Supremacist Attack on the Pendleton Post Office
...high number but nothing like comparative statistics in the central or southern parts of the state.59For a good understanding of these numbers, see Megginson, African American Life, 8. Consider how...
Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment
...lights on, businesses like Wal-Mart are becoming the major employers. When mines close and the number of miners decreases, company housing may deteriorate, be abandoned, or replaced by mobile homes....
The Civil War and Emancipation 150 Years On
...a sensitivity to African Americans unimaginable at the time of the centennial of the war. On the other hand, polls reveal that nearly half the people in the nation believe...
Bioregional Approach to Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta
...evolutionary and ecological time scales. Biotic communities, as known during historical times, assembled only since the last major glaciation, or, the past 20,000 years. Like other southeastern vegetational assemblages, the...
States' Rights Resurgent: The Attack on the Voting Rights Act
...Calhoun, who defended states' rights—or state sovereignty—and slavery "in the slaveholding States . . . instead of an evil, a good—a positive good."4John C. Calhoun, "Slavery a Positive Good," TeachingAmericanHistory.org,...
Still Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease
...monthly payments can mean the difference between destitution and modest survival.4This estimate of the number of black lung beneficiaries is extrapolated from data on the number of claims filed each...