Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville
...the Numbers, A Time Table 1957: Eleven black children establish permanent desegregation of Nashville public schools when they enroll at the first grade level in five elementary schools; the Nashville...
Slavery's Traces: In Search of Ashley's Sack
...Jr. married Annie Eliza Erwin, whose father, James Daniel Erwin, had died two years earlier and bequeathed her twenty-three slaves, many of who were held on his Erwinton plantation, adjacent...
Stormy Banks and Sweet Rivers: A Sacred Harp Geography
...the singing schools as crude. Musicians such as Lowell Mason (1792-1872) began an ardent campaign against the singing schools and the kind of music they promoted. Mason and the "better...
Somewhere Like Real Life: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood
...character of Antoine Doinel, played by Jean-Pierre Léaud.2The films in the Antoine Doinel series are: The 400 Blows (1959 feature), Antoine and Colette (1962 short), Stolen Kisses (1968 feature), Bed...
"It's Being Black and Poor": Race, Class, and Desegregation at Pebblebrook High
...1985). Historians Pete Daniel and Elizabeth Jacoway have persuasively argued that the legacy of Little Rock's Central High is very much with us today, as its actors—black and white students—grapple...
Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
...'em no more.'" George Daniel Fred Fussell writes in "'Cowboy' George Daniel: Blues Man from Creek Stand": "George Daniel was born in Macon County, Alabama, in 1929. Daniel has been...
Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans
...offices. Several alumni, such as Ralph Ellison, who worked on the New York City guide, and Saul Bellow and Studs Terkel went on to distinguished literary careers. But you can...
"Our Country"—Benjamin E. Wise's William Alexander Percy
...his "experiences of sexual freedom possible. His wealth allowed him to travel around the world, and that wealth was created in large part by black slaves and sharecroppers. His vision...
Three Black Towns: An Excerpt from Black Landscapes Matter
...the land was dubbed Freedom Hill. Twenty years later, a Black community elder named Turner Prince purchased the land, and it was renamed Princeville, the first incorporated Black town in...
Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg
...carried out its ambitious agenda. But the collections of the bibliophiles in attendance became the foundation of today's Africana archives eco-system. The Library of Congress's Africana Collections began with Daniel...