Mississippi Delta
...Florida panther. Prevalent trees included sweetgum, hackberry, cottonwood, persimmon, and river cane, the latter growing in dense patches. Picking cotton in some of the poorer land, Mississippi Delta, near Clarksdale,...
"Aint that Something?"
...comfort for Dawn, and it's deeply tied to her family—it's impossible to separate the two. Most of Dawn's family lives in the region, but don't offer much stability—a ragged bunch...
When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras
...number of African Americans migrating to the South exceeded the number of those leaving the region. Especially for returning and primary migrants frustrated by the declining economic opportunities available in...
Carolina's Caribbean Origins: A Review of Hubs of Empire
...Anglophone Caribbean's plantation zone. The founding of a settlement that became Charleston, South Carolina, by a group of planters from Barbados in the 1670s functions as the analytical core of...
The Makers of the Sacred Harp
...into the specific. Fortunately there are abundant resources for introductory encounters with the tradition, including many opportunities to attend a singing. Steel discusses The Sacred Harp’s editors and contents, its...
Fort Scott newspapers
...are open questions." Fort Scott Herald. "The Right of Self Protection." April 5, 1879. "Fort Scott has no apology to make for the dreadful deed which was forced on the...
Ablaze: The 1849 White Supremacist Attack on the Pendleton Post Office
...to support captives through an Anti-Slavery Society effort. William Brisbane to Lewis Tappan, January 23, 1841, Doc. no. F1-4881, American Missionary Association Archives, Amistad Research Center, New Orleans, LA. Having...
Psychiatry in the Wake: Racism and the Asylumed South
...and beyond the archives. Gonaver's The Peculiar Institution and the Making of Modern Psychiatry is an intimate and detailed telling of the multiple lives contained within a forty-year history of...
Crisis of the New Majority: Low-Income Students in the South's Public Schools
...Florida, Texas, Georgia, and North Carolina, as well as in New Mexico, California, and a few other states outside the South, an increase in the number of Latino children appears...
The Bulletin—January 29, 2013
...of Justice all approved Florida's 2012 redistricting plans, Florida's Second Judicial Circuit Court Judge Terry Lewis issued an order which denied a motion to dismiss a challenge to those plans...