Georgia Slavery, Georgia Freedom
...fueled a rigid racial order amid changing class alliances. For Jennison, the slide toward the sectional South of white rule, black oppression, and red removal was not inevitable but resulted from...
Prop Master at Charleston's Gibbes Museum of Art
Introduction Artists Susan Harbage Page and Juan Logan designed Prop Master: An Installation specifically for the Main Gallery of the Gibbes Museum of Art. In its totality, Prop Master constitutes...
Imagining Southern Bodies: A Review of Sex, Sickness, and Slavery
...lowlands. In contrast, blacks were viewed as admirably adapted for it by providential design or the experience of living in Africa for millennia. Place—climate and landscape—was crucial to comprehending southern...
Struggle Against Disease and Discrimination: The Jesse Peel Papers
...and designed by Felix de Weldon—the sculptor famous for designing the Marine Corps War Memorial in Washington DC—the planned sculpture depicted a man, woman, and child reaching for a matrix...
Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
...begins, in the north, at Troup County in Georgia and Chambers County in Alabama and then runs southward through Lee, Russell, Barbour, Henry, and Dale Counties in Alabama and through...
Birth Right
...Birth Right, 2008. The more important public health issue that resonates with midwifery issues is the lack of access to care for many women who reside in rural Alabama. Rural...
Inside Poor Monkey's
...but these uses don’t interfere with the Thursday night routine. Luther Brown, Outside Rules, Poor Monkey's near Merigold, Mississippi, 2005. Seaberry's small space has also made a mark on the...
African Americans in Atlanta: Adrienne Herndon, an Uncommon Woman
...she developed one in her own neighborhood. Frustrated by her efforts to be an artist outside of the home, she made her home the focus of her artistic talent, designing...
"Miking" Against Covid in Bangladesh
...disease outbreaks such as COVID-19. Bangladesh's health services are centralized and urban-centric.1There are only 1.1 doctors per 10,000 people in rural populations in Bangladesh, while there are 18.2 doctors per...
Reframing Resistance: A Review of Freedom Now!
Review I remember well seeing Charles Moore's fire hose photographs from Birmingham in my hometown newspaper, the Louisville Courier-Journal. Six-years old in 1963, I had little understanding of the day's...