Mississippi Delta
...of the region, especially to Chicago, a main migration location for Delta blacks. The Illinois Central Railroad became a powerful symbol to African Americans of escape from the Delta and...
The Carolina Piedmont
Landscape and Settlement As pioneers, traders, and military men traversed the region in the early eighteenth century, they found the towns of Catawba, Saponi, and Saura Indians and trading paths...
Race, Capitalism, and the Rise and Fall of Black Beach Communities
...in US political development. About the Author Brett Gadsden is an associate professor of African American Studies at Emory University where he specializes in African American history and civil rights....
Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville
...Williams, and Marshall filed suit against the Nashville city schools on behalf of twenty-one African American children, one of whom was fourteen-year-old Robert W. Kelley, who had been turned away...
Mardi Gras Indian, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2010
Central America Protest, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, March 25, 1984
According to Duke Yearlook: Members of the Students for a Democratic Central America counter-protesting a demonstration done by the Central America Solidarity Committee. Members of the Central America Solidarity Committee...
Beasts of the Southern Wild and Dirty Ecology
...a chorus of animals: "'I'm hungry. I want to poop.' But sometimes they start talking in codes." How do we make our way into the coded life of other species?...
The Bulletin—November 15, 2012
...county-level results of the presidential election between Republican Mitt Romney and Democrat Barack Obama scaled by population density. Illustrator Chris Howard designed another map which overlays county-by-county election results with...
"Rights Still Being Righted": Scottsboro Eighty Years Later
...with the NAACP, the trials led to landmark Supreme Court decisions. Powell v. Alabama affirmed a defendent's right to competent counsel, and Norris v. Alabama challenged the exclusion of African...
An Excerpt from Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
...Europeans, many Native American tribes had owned slaves, though none exploited slave labor on a large scale. With the introduction of African slavery, Indian nations also participated in the practice....