"Holding on to Those Who Can't Be Held": Reenacting a Lynching at Moore's Ford, Georgia
...ones were opposed to the reenactments, which they believe fundamentally undercut efforts at cross-racial reconciliation. William had hoped to maintain neutrality and peace in the group by not offering up...
Queer Memory: Loss, Martyrs, and Memorialization in Southern Florida
...careless that his name is in one pile and not the other."13Matthew Dickman, "Grief," The New Yorker, May 5, 2008, http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/05/05/grief-6 My purple gorilla was a pink flamingo—standing with its...
Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black
...in 1892. Instead, "gentlemanly and efficient" railroad conductors would hand "[white] woman after [white] woman from the steps to the stool, thence to the ground, or else relieving her of...
Undoing the Voting Rights Act
...Voting Rights Act of 1965. In effect, he rewrites the amendments Congress adopted in 1982 and annuls their purpose of making it easier, not harder, to strike down voter suppression...
Nostalgia May Not Be the Right Word
...and light specific, and also frost and winter sleep, conditions of particular year, as every instance comes just once with mix of mineral and grease, what Hopkins chose to call...
Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations
...liberal-nationalist elites to form coalitions with them and to decree freedom from above. Instead, inside courts of law, they usually sought relief in the custom-centered colonial legal framework. In Santiago,...
Ablaze: The 1849 White Supremacist Attack on the Pendleton Post Office
...office. They burned the offending materials along with an effigy of antislavery activist William Lloyd Garrison. Torch-lit parades to protest these mailings were then held in towns throughout South Carolina.10Devin...
A Green Democratic Revolution
...sections of the public. A growing part of the population is now aware that the preservation of acceptable living conditions on earth will depend on the ability to effectively combat...
Longleaf, Far as the Eye Can See: A New Vision of North America's Richest Forest
...life, longleaf forests grew in many forms and various conditions and soil types across large areas of the southern states. The authors of Longleaf effectively argue that the forests' diminution...
Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance
...Supreme Court called for re-argument of Dred Scott v. Sanford, leading to the majority opinion in March 1857, authored by Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney, holding that persons of African...