Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery: From Slavery to Segregation
...they tell a story central to Arlington and mirror an even larger story of black Americans who lived through the transitions from slavery to segregation. Here rest roughly 3,800 people...
Sonic Zora in Florida
...William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of African American Studies, American Studies, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and Music at Yale University. She is the author of Bodies in Dissent: Spectacular Performances...
The War the Slaveholders Won: Indian Removal and the State of Georgia
Presentation About the Speaker Claudio Saunt is Richard B. Russell professor of American History, co-director of the Center for Visual History, and associate director of the Center for Native American Studies at...
Family Forestry in Twiggs County, Georgia / Live in Macon at the Douglass Theatre
...Douglass Theatre Macon native Charles Henry Douglass, an African American entrepreneur, opened the Douglass Theatre in Macon in 1912 to serve Macon's African American community. The original theater was located...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...on similar issues. to Kara Walker's cut-paper silhouette art in her 2007–2008 exhibit "American Primitives."28On "American Primitives," see Grace Elizabeth Hale's "A Horrible, Beautiful Beast," Southern Spaces, March 6, 2008,...
Putting the Vernacular in Modernism: A Review of Edward Comentale's Sweet Air
Review Edward Comentale's Sweet Air: Modernism, Regionalism, and American Popular Song is the latest work in a growing corpus of vernacular American music studies that seeks to understand the relationship...
A City Divided
...lining Jackson Hill, just east of the Atlanta's downtown, were uncomfortable with the presence of African Americans in the area, it did not surface publicly until 1910. That year, local...
Vale of Amusements: Modernity, Technology, and Atlanta's Ponce de Leon Park, 1870–1920
Introduction: Shooting the Chutes at Early American Amusement Parks Lakewood Park's Shoot-the-Chutes, Atlanta, Georgia, ca. 1895. "The Shoot-the-Chutes ride at Lakewood Park was originally at the Atlanta International Cotton States...
Resegregated Spaces: The Schools-to-Prisons Pipeline
...and from 1964 to 1975, worked as a field representative for the American Friends Service Committee on issues of voter registration, school desegregation, and economic development in the US South....
Racial breakdown of the population of the fourteen Georgia counties in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley.
County White Alone, #, 2000 White Alone, %, 2000 Black Alone, #, 2000 Black Alone, %, 2000 Chattahoochee 8,643 58.08 4,453 29.92 Clay 1,290 38.43 2,030 60.47 Decatur 16,126...