"Looking Back and Moving Forward": The Records of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference at Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library
...Black and Poor Americans records, SCLC records, MARBL, Emory University. SCLC argued that traditional principles and tactics of nonviolent direct action could be successfully brought to bear under any number...
Carolina's Caribbean Origins: A Review of Hubs of Empire
...meaningful continuities. William Faulkner, for example, influenced iconic Caribbean writers Derek Walcott and Édouard Glissant and also made a pronounced impact on South American writer Gabriel García Márquez.1Valérie Loichot, Orphan...
Palomares Bajo
...an exercise in outrage at military duplicity. It is, as Eric Sandeen describes Misrach's work, an attempt "to situate American vision, to anchor American memory, in the ruins of modernity."...
Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
...Fred Fussell offers additional geographical and historical notes in A Chattahoochee Album: It is believed that Native American people . . . had lived in and around the Lower Chattahoochee...
Bioregional Approach to Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta
...Native American subsistence systems in the Delta changed over time to include various horticultural practices. The amount of horticulture and trade practiced by the Native American societies did not show...
A City Divided
...and black occupancy increased, elite whites became distressed about more African American homes, which they equated with urban disorder. From 1899 to 1910, the number of households within the declared...
Making Lumbeeland: An Interview with Malinda Maynor Lowery
...that you have “now.” Lumbeeland wasn't made in response to Reservation Dogs, but it was being made while Reservation Dogs was on TV. We're always living with the question of...
American and British Slave Trade Abolition in Perspective
American and British Slave Trade Abolition in Perspective Part 2: Davis discusses connections between enslaved African labor, trans-Atlantic trade, and emerging anti-slavery movements Part 3: Davis discusses three major factors...
An Unlikely Bohemia: Athens, Georgia, in Reagan's America
...American bohemia. Yet Athens kids built the first important small-town American music scene and the key early site of what would become alternative or indie culture. We had grown up...
"It's Being Black and Poor": Race, Class, and Desegregation at Pebblebrook High
...as a result of desegregation, only 37% of black students attended mostly black schools, by the year 2000, that number had grown to 69%, quickly approaching the 1968 numbers for...