Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters
...California, and Allentown, Pennsylvania. Gasoline rationing and rubber shortages accompanied the war years, further reducing patronage. By 1945, barely one hundred drive-ins existed in the United States.3Ibid., 28, 30. Douglas...
Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
...celebration," as whites and blacks remained unknown to each other across the divides of separated societies and an anguished past.67Ibid., 391, 397. At the commemoration day ceremonies for the Weeping...
Southern Spaces Recommends
...general insights into humanity. For instance, this Eliot epigram fits the current occupant of the White House and his cronies: "There is no escaping the fact that want of sympathy...
New Histories of Environmental Activism: A Review of Rethinking the American Environmental Movement
...Where, for instance, traditional histories examined conservationism and perhaps Progressive Era smokestack regulation, Spears discusses resistance to slavery, and pre-Civil War public health debates, in addition to the emergence of...
The Chesapeake Bay
...environmentalists, and observers, the declension model--from health and balance to sickness and instability--remains the dominant way of understanding and evaluating the ecosystem's history. Contemporary Issues Regulation of the resources in...
Going South, Coming North: Migration and Union Organizing in Morristown, Tennessee
...Workers in Increasingly Latino-ized Occupations,” Notre Dame Law Review 80 (2004): 303; Lisa Catanzarite, “Dynamics of Segregation and Earnings in Brown-Collar Occupations," Work & Occupations 29 (2002): 300. In east...
"Holding on to Those Who Can't Be Held": Reenacting a Lynching at Moore's Ford, Georgia
...4 (1999): p. 30. In October 1994 Colonial Williamsburg presented a reenacted slave auction.10The protests against the auction were organized primarily by the local NAACP and SCLC chapters. In her...
Queer Memory: Loss, Martyrs, and Memorialization in Southern Florida
...Key West, Florida, March 2014. Photographs (1, 2, 3) courtesy of the author. Here, beneath your feet, is the Key West AIDS Memorial, the only municipal AIDS Memorial in the...
Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black
...2, 3455, p. 975. In Birmingham, Alabama, for instance, facilities that served food could not accommodate Blacks and whites in the same room—unless, as the municipal legislators put it, "such...
Undoing the Voting Rights Act
...3112, H.R. 3198, H.R. 3473, and H.R. 3948, 97th Congress, May 6, 7, 13, 19, 20, 27, 28; and June 3, 1981; Report of the Subcommittee on the Constitution of...