The Crowd He Becomes
...have done it it wouldn't have been alone, he would have had a driver and a man out west to phone in threats to draw the cops away. They'd ease...
Art, Diaspora, and Identity: The John Biggers Papers
Southern Spaces is pairing with Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (MARBL) to publish short features on MARBL collections, events, and exhibits that tell the history of spaces...
Sankofa Series: What Must Be Remembered
...Company dating to ca. 1860.2This passbook is housed in the African American Miscellaneous Collection in Emory University’s Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library. Passbooks were used during...
Farmland Blues: The Legacy of USDA Discrimination
...or other federal benefits, and county USDA offices purposely squeezed black farmers out of farming. Paradoxically, the flight of African Americans from the land coincided with the civil rights movement,...
University of Texas Press and Southern Spaces Katrina Bookshelf Series Collaboration
...online presentation from the University of Texas Press new Katrina Bookshelf Series. The book series is edited by Prof. Kai Erikson, former president of the American Sociological Association. Below is...
Ireland’s First Sacred Harp Convention: “To Meet To Part No More”
...Facebook, accessed March 8, 2011, https://www.facebook.com/groups/110889371183/ and the Facebook wall, accessed March 8, 2011, http://facebook.com/. The first instance of pan-European participation in a Sacred Harp convention, the Ireland Convention has...
COVID-19 Vaccine and the Right to Public Health
...went into arms and by mid-March 2021, a quarter of the population had received at least one vaccine; six months later that number rose to 85 percent. Although Black Democrats...
Slavery's Traces: In Search of Ashley's Sack
...(University of North Carolina Press, 2012), 196–197. The sack is described in the epilogue of Williams's book, and has been discussed from time to time in media reports since the...
Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans
...Change in these latitudes has often been more of the same. Which is why this WPA guidebook deserves placement in the ranks of the permanently useful. You can still follow...
History, Geography, and the New Orleans Tourism Industry: A Review of Bourbon Street
...Prohibition, the Depression, wars, recessions, fires, hurricanes, floods, mobsters, raids, crackdowns, segregation, integration, white flight, hippies, rappers, evangelists, the oil bust, the dot-com bust, and relentless cycles of cultural tastes"...