Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville
...could be completed within a fixed period—say, five years, as the Evansville, Indiana, school system had done in 1949–1954—but the Nashville board wanted a slower pace of one grade a...
Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death
...of Presbyterians who kept hallooing and whooping without Door like Indians." He calls them "Ignorant, mean, worthless, beggarly Irish Presbyterians, the Scum of the Earth, and Refuse of Mankind."5Woodmason, 17,...
Confederate Literary Nationalism: Coleman Hutchison's Apples and Ashes
...T. Buford, First Lieutenant Independent Scouts C.S.A. Illustrations from The Woman in Battle (1876). Courtesy of Documenting the American South, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Apple and Ashes's final...
Reframing Resistance: A Review of Freedom Now!
...authority. In this image the woman under arrest is doing all she can to wrestle free, including attempting to bite one of three policemen. Berger explains that this image was...
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...grid is a photograph of a young, blonde-haired woman in sunglasses, head hanging out of a demolition derby car at the Crossville Raceway in Cumberland County. While this image may...
Enslaved Labor and Building the Smithsonian: Reading the Stones
...man John over 50, $225 Negro man Daniel 33, $410 Ned, 30, $500 Morris (?) 24, $600 George? (?) 14, $350 Sandy, 7, $200 Joseph very old, $100 Woman Celia...
Visions for Sustainable Agriculture in Cuba and the United States: Changing Minds and Models through Exchange
...nothing to promote political and economic change. In July 2010 Menendez took the Senate floor to oppose an easing of travel restrictions, remarking that more opportunities for US citizens to...
The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi
...ever since. The Joneses promotional poster. Bunny Lake Films LLC, 2016. The documentary project spun out of my first book, Men Like That: A Southern Queer History, which began as...
"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
...in a mode promoting social justice and change for all LGBTQ+ people. My wrist might not be ‘stiff’ in the way my dad intended, but I think my artistic mission...
Farmland Blues: The Legacy of USDA Discrimination
...discriminatory treatment of African Americans (and women, Indians, and Hispanics) is richly documented. A pattern emerged across the South in FHA offices during the 1950s and 1960s. Sometimes the supervisor...