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...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,'Who Do You Think Of?": Part One
...graduating class? When the company was fined, each worker's death was worth only $55,000-a sum acceptable to any company willing to offset that cost and more by the extra production...
"It's Being Black and Poor": Race, Class, and Desegregation at Pebblebrook High
...of de facto segregation and marked the turn away from the dramatic (and largely effective) desegregation remedies of the previous decade. Among the many legacies of Brown is the loss...
Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
...known musician in Talbot County. He recalled the many times he walked away with prizes offered at the theater in nearby Junction City. 'I was rough then,' he said. 'I...
Born In Violent Conquest: A Review of Jacksonland
...within the United States, rather than members of an indigenous polity seeking to protect itself against an invading empire. In Jacksonland's strongest sections, Inskeep surveys the many ways Jackson merged...
The "Achilles' Heel" of Jim Crow: A Review of Landscapes of Exclusion
...national parks today, many African Americans continue to feel unwelcome in such places. "[M]arking this racialized history can be potentially advantageous as a way of drawing new visitors. Most important,...
The Dispossessions of Appalachia: A Review of Ramp Hollow
...mineral rights and vast landholdings, opening of the "billion dollar coalfields," growth of company towns and the exploitative trap of scrip (non-legal tender in which miners received wages), company stores,...
Three Black Towns: An Excerpt from Black Landscapes Matter
...and landscapes, was self-built by Black residents. Many residents were engaged in the timber and mill industries and located their businesses and homes close to the Tar River, built on...
Crosses, Flowers, and Asphalt: Roadside Memorials in the US South
...in fatal crashes. Poignant and popular examples include "Wreck on the Highway" recorded by Roy Acuff (and subsequently many others), "The Runt" recorded by Hank Snow, and movie theme song...
You Can't Eat Coal, and Other Lessons from Appalachian Women's History
...accessed March 8, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/11/opinion/sunday/we-need-somebody-spectacular-views-from-trump-country.html; John Saward, "Welcome to Trump County, USA," Vanity Fair, February 24, 2016, accessed March 8, 2017, http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/02/donald-trump-supporters-west-virginia; Larissa MacFarquhar, "In the Heart of Trump Country,"...