The "Achilles' Heel" of Jim Crow: A Review of Landscapes of Exclusion
...creator, North Carolina Division of Parks and Recreation. Courtesy of the North Carolina Division of Parks and Recreation Records collection, State Archives of North Carolina, North Carolina Digital Collections, State...
Writing Appalachia
...with the remarkable number of fine authors whose works had appeared since the book's publication, made that collection feel incomplete. Aware of those gaps, Higgs and Manning, along with scholar...
No Place To Be Displaced: Katrina Response and the Deep South's Political Economy
...in the center of the state, less than two hours from the Upstate area of Greenville and the growing suburbs of Charlotte, North Carolina, and the Low Country, including Charleston....
James Holland, Riverkeeper: Environmental Protection along the Altamaha
...to take, returning the rest to forage through the delta mud. The numbers in the coolers spoke: they were falling, 300 pounds, 225, 175. Every year they fell—he remembers 1,500...
The Liminal Site
Red Mountain Garden Location of Smith's house, Birmingham, Alabama. Copyright GoogleMaps, 2013. My backyard garden is sited on the steep north slope of Red Mountain in Birmingham, Alabama, about sixty...
Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
...a geographical definition of the Lower Chattahoochee region: The Lower Chattahoochee River Valley region . . . is marked at its northern end by the point at which the Chattahoochee...
The Bulletin—November 29, 2012
...draw a boundary between North and South Carolina. His instructions were to draw a line which began thirty miles south of the Cape Fear River and extended northwest to thirty-five...
A Woman's Work: Jim Crow Modernity and the Remaking of the Carceral State
...Here: Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015), 19-20. Their strategy of portraying Cobb as monstrous worked, as governor Joseph...
"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...
Interstate Road Project, Single-State History: Tammy Ingram's Look at the Dixie Highway
...of a number of "marked trails" of this era—would join existing local roads into a long-distance highway linking north and south. Not coincidentally, it would connect the metropolitan North with...