Baptists and Witches: Multiple Jurisdictions in a Muskogee Creek Story
...the clouds closed quietly around the moon as the thunder rumbled and the heavy drops began to fall, slowly at first, then irregularly, then increasing to a rhythmic rush of...
Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
...from the Doctrine's intent. The Supreme Court of the United States upheld the doctrine in 1967 in Red Lion Broadcasting v. FCC 395 US 367 (1967), but in 1984 the Court ruled...
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...
Anniversary
Readings Jake Adam York reads the poem "Anniversary." Poem text. Jake Adam York reads the poem "Consolation." Poem text. Jake Adam York reads the poem "Darkly." Poem text. Jake Adam...
St. Catherines Island Flyover
...pre-Civil War plantation sites. Map detailing the geography of St. Catherines Island and St. Catherines Sound. Map courtesy of Steve Bransford, Anthony Martin, and Michael Page. Screenshot courtesy of Southern...
Prop Master at Charleston's Gibbes Museum of Art
...to collaborate on a major site-specific installation inspired by the Gibbes' 150 year-old collection. Dr. Laurel Fredrickson, an art history Scholar in Residence at Duke University, authored the wall text...
Negotiating Gender Lines: Women's Movement across Atlanta Mosques
...Sjoquist (New York: Russell Sage, 2000), 2. The mismatch between the alarming poverty rates and the perceptions of Atlanta as a thriving city for African Americans reflects what social scientists...
Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, and Biotechnology
...deeply rooted in the city and regional economic structure, as well as historic patterns of rural-urban migration and ties to agricultural and industrial development. Wanda Rushing, Wall painting in...
Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
...and Alabama. They promised Rudolph Lanniger, a recent Russian immigrant, a "good job" and hired Manuel Jordomons, a Bulgarian, to do masonry work in Georgia.16Harry Korshinsky, Bennie Graubert, Rudolph Lanniger,...
Mississippi Delta
Essay Mississippi Delta region. Map by Stacey Martin, 2006. Sociologist Rupert Vance wrote in the 1930s of the "cotton obsessed, Negro obsessed" Mississippi Delta as "the deepest South." A half...