Signs, Near Bear Creek, North Carolina, 2007
Seneca Quarry
...months (April, May, June, July), and at its peak in May employed seventy workers at the quarry. Out of those seventy workers, thirty-one signed for their pay with an "X,"...
Brick by Brick: Atlanta’s Collier Heights
...when he founded his company at the height of Jim Crow restrictions in 1952. The 8,761-square-foot residence on 714 Shorter Terrace signals the hard work and commitment of businessmen and...
The Other Side of Paradise: Glimpsing Slavery in the University's Utopian Landscapes
...read this headstone as signifying antebellum amity. As Ms. Williams remarks, "Well, that just tells you what 'family' meant in those days; anybody working together in the same household counted...
Baptists and Witches: Multiple Jurisdictions in a Muskogee Creek Story
...miles to church in order to donate it at a Sunday service. Mr. Joe Watson (1850-1914) carved a staff with a reptile design. The third was carved with the design...
Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond
...and future of the entire city/region. The return of particular family funerals around this time was also taken as a sign of "life" in the neighborhoods of New Orleans. As...
End of the Pandemic? A Grassroots Perspective
...vaccines available for over two years. Shutdowns and enforced quarantines ended, even in holdout nations. The WHO's announcement signaled that other countries, including the United States, would follow suit if...
Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia
...conservation easement or land trust under the authority of the states and/or counties where each community resides. SECTION 2. Commons communities would be organized according to the design principles developed...
Authorship in Africana Studies
...restrictions, dependent on our personal location. I have mentioned three identities that signify my own location and indicate something of the challenges of ever making art at all in Britain....
African Americans in Atlanta: Community Building in a New South City
...the shining example of Henry Grady's New South ideology — seeking industrialization through northern capital and promising racial justice through segregation. But in spite of the city's aggressive promotion of...