Lift Every Voice and Sing: The Quilts of Gwendolyn Ann Magee
...corner significant to Magee's family, and the encroaching floodwaters where streams of music pouring from the trumpet meet and blend with streams of water flowing through broken levees. Multiple details—the...
The Liminal Site
...like C. florida that thrives in the partly shady wood with nice rich organic soils all moist and acidic. Once the plant leaves the nursery for that long trunk ride...
Collaborative Atlanta Studies Website Gathers Original Scholarship, Research, and Projects on Atlanta
...reviewed by the editorial board. AtlantaStudies.org also offers a gateway to several projects and resources. Current featured projects are the ECDS's Battle of Atlanta smartphone-accessible tour; the Peoplestown Project about the...
Three Black Towns: An Excerpt from Black Landscapes Matter
...towns, including population decline and reduced economic opportunities. City seal, Eatonville, Florida, 1999. Photograph by Tina Bucuvalas. Courtesy of the State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory. Eatonville, Florida, also founded...
Georgia Slavery, Georgia Freedom
...Chippewa Square, Savannah, Georgia, May 22, 2014. Photograph by Flickr user BEV Norton. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Bottom, Detail of General Oglethorpe Statue, Savannah, Georgia, February 12, 2010. Photograph...
Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death
...all the Bigotry and Zeal to the Church of Scotland, as possible—And this Zeal had infected his whole Flock." Their childless marriage, he believed, added to Mrs. Richardson's "Melancholy and...
Social Justice Environmentalism
...demands presaged environmental justice themes. Laid out in a flyer entitled "Negroes' Most Urgent Needs," the MIA's concerns included "Negro Representation on the Parks and Recreation Board," "Sub-division for housing,"...
Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
...of ensuing rape should she resist. Like Zelia in "The Mulatto," Clotel rebels against the space in which her humanity remains in jeopardy. Facing sexual exploitation, Clotel flees. In Chapter...
Unquiet Emmett Till
Review Emmett Till continues to torment our imaginations. How could two (and almost certainly more) grown men, veterans, over six feet tall, see a fourteen year old kid as such...
Reckoning with Enslavement
...dozen university officials, and a cluster of Jesuit priests assembled inside Healy Hall for the liturgy and slowly processed into an ornate, wood-paneled auditorium on the third floor. After the...