Brown, Black, and White in Texas
...In Crystal City, the site of a major Mexican American struggle, blacks "comprised only 2 percent of the population, or less than two hundred people," Behnken explains. "Few blacks traveled...
Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project: Remembering Ancestors
...Key: B = Ports where a marker has been placed and a ceremony has been held; M = Ports where a marker has been placed; C = Ports where a...
The Web of Cis-Atlantic History: A Review of Louisiana: Crossroads of the Atlantic World
...as free people of color) living under and against such systems—carving out unique spaces, whether economic, cultural, or sexual, in which they exercised the very agency that colonial officials and...
Social Justice Environmentalism
...cadre of African American elected officials built alliances that helped bring attention to the ecological crisis and advance environmental reform. Following a path pursued successfully by civil rights advocates, environmentalists...
Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South
...weeks earlier, his planned itinerary was a journalistic roundup, with stops scheduled in the places that had made headlines: Dayton, Tennessee (a 1920s news site Daniels ultimately skipped); Scottsboro, Alabama;...
Katrina, One Year Later: Three Perspectives
...make a composite image. David Wharton's photographs focus on the destructive power of Katrina and the slow pace of clean-up and reconstruction in the year after the storm. Many of...
Call for Submissions: Public Health and/in the US and Global South
...Color of Democracy: A Japanese Public Health Official's Reconnaissance Trip to the US South." Southern Spaces, March 18, 2011. https://southernspaces.org/2011/color-democracy-japanese-public-health-officials-reconnaissance-trip-us-south. Herring, Christie. Bodies and Souls. Southern Spaces, November 30, 2009....
Voting Rights, the Supreme Court, and the Persistence of Southern History
...jurisdictions see "Section 5 Covered Jurisdictions," United States Department of Justice, accessed May 21, 2013, http://www.justice.gov/crt/about/vot/sec_5/covered.php. Congress enacted Section 5 because state and local officials habitually obstructed the voting rights...
Driving Through Time: The Digital Blue Ridge Parkway
...to Anne Mitchell Whisnant, author of Super-Scenic Motorway: A Blue Ridge Parkway History, and the scholarly advisor for the website Driving Through Time, "Since 1946, the Blue Ridge Parkway has...
A Sleight of History: University of Alabama's Foster Auditorium
...by filming the exterior of Foster, not only broken doors and windows, but the structure's physical beauty. In an effort to tell the story of a powerful place, a site...