Baptists and Witches: Multiple Jurisdictions in a Muskogee Creek Story
...closed. A blanket is put over the casket. It is lowered into the vault box, and the top is fastened to the box. While the casket is being lowered, the...
Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
...America; one document tells of a black fife and drum corps playing for a Confederate regiment."29Alan Lomax, The Land Where the Blues Began (New York: The New Press,1993), 333. "Every...
States' Rights Resurgent: The Attack on the Voting Rights Act
...http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/Redistricting-debate-hears-new-argument-4655908.php. Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange called the decision "an important victory for the fundamental constitutional principle that all states enjoy equal sovereignty."15"AG Strange Praises the US Supreme Court for...
Unquiet Emmett Till
...of the story comes from the fact that people like Hodding Carter knew better, were truly horrified by the viciousness of the crime, but were not so horrified that they...
Social Justice Environmentalism
...containers transporting biosolids from New York and New Jersey wastewater treatment plants to Big Sky Landfill, Adamsville, AL, January 2018. Photograph by Dennis Pillion. "Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of train cars...
The Carolina Piedmont
...of the Atlanta and Richmond Air-Line Railway offered a direct route from New York to New Orleans and further shifted the region's orientation away from the Carolina coast. Cotton agriculture,...
Atlanta's Charis Books and More: Histories of a Feminist Space
...of a number of other groups and activities.10Information about ALFA and related groups and activities is based on the ALFA Newsletter, renamed the Atalanta (ALFA Newsletter/Atalanta, newsletter of the Atlanta Lesbian Feminist Alliance,...
Inside Poor Monkey's
...magazine’s Japan edition. Newspapers from the Memphis Commercial Appeal to the New York Times have published descriptions and photos. The floor plan of the lounge has been analyzed as an...
Shades of Violence: Jim Crow Justice and Black Resistance in the Depression-Era South
...in Southern Courts," New York, New York, 1931. Pamphlet by Joseph North. Published by International Labor Defense. Courtesy of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Image...
Putting the Vernacular in Modernism: A Review of Edward Comentale's Sweet Air
...course, the Devil himself. It is often experienced as both cause and effect, action and reaction, and it can be used as both hex and counterhex, poison and antidote, pain...