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...
Genres of Southern Literature
...definitional questions by noting that southern literature is itself a genre: a body of texts bound together and meeting expectations of readers through similarities in areas of theme, setting, mood,...
Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
...understand the lives of workers from Mexico. While farming, I began to think and write about the loss of community in rural areas. I was writing some poetry about how...
An Excerpt from Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
...with the twins' arrival in this area in 1839, are usually in attendance. Sometimes, researchers and historians are also present as honored guests. The Bunkers are a convivial, welcoming bunch....
"Looking Back and Moving Forward": The Records of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference at Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library
...Emory University. Founded in 1957 by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and other civil rights leaders, including Ralph David Abernathy, Ella Baker, Joseph E. Lowery, Bayard Rustin, Fred Shuttlesworth, and...
Navigating Jim Crow: A Review of Adolph L. Reed's The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
...of defenses. Traveling on a ferry boat with his grandmother, Reed asked her why chicken wire had been strung between the segregated seating areas. "Well, you see," she stage-whispered, "a...
Beyond Fairyland: Writing and Curating Queer Miami
...the "South." Top, "Walk by bayshore, Bayfront Park," Miami, Florida. Postcard published by Standard Drug and Sundry Co. Photograph by G. W. Romer. Courtesy of Florida Memory, State Library &...
New Adventures in Tandem Ethnography
...rabbit coops overgrown with blackberry vines, lichen, and other muds; sheds frozen in time circa 1998, filled with tackleboxes, house siding, oxygen tanks, and gigantic spiders; and work areas that...
African American Community Building in Atlanta: A Guide to the Study of Race in America
...provided separate entrances, exits and pathways for Blacks and Whites. Atlanta became the first Georgia city to legislate segregation in residential areas. There was virtually no area of Black life...
Southern Football, African American Athletes, and the Relative Decline of the Big Ten
...its schools recruited talented African American athletes earlier than a number of other power conferences, most notably, of course, those in the South. Before the early 1970s, a minuscule number...