University of Texas Press and Southern Spaces Katrina Bookshelf Series Collaboration
...was nearly emptied of life. If measured by the number of lives it claimed, Katrina does not qualify as the worst disaster in our history. But it was far and away...
Counterblast: How the Atlanta Temple Bombing Strengthened the Civil Rights Cause
...Brickner, October 12, 1961, box 5, folder 8, Rothschild Papers, 1933–1985, Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University, Atlanta. Rothschild was active in a number of liberal organizations, including...
Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...environmental affairs in the Louisiana attorney general's office, Fontenot assisted environmental justice activists, before being forced out of his position in 2005, after he showed a group of college students...
"When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?"
...use in hundreds of college courses. She has published five books of poetry, The Sound of One Fork, We Say We Love Each Other, Crime Against Nature, Walking Back Up...
"Rights Still Being Righted": Scottsboro Eighty Years Later
...in New College and American Studies at the University of Alabama. She is also working with a team of University of Alabama students and a statewide university consortium in partnership...
The Bulletin—May 8, 2013
...money for the vouchers will come from, though the state committed to funding the private education of almost 8000 students through the voucher program just last week. Also on Tuesday,...
Still Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease
...monthly payments can mean the difference between destitution and modest survival.4This estimate of the number of black lung beneficiaries is extrapolated from data on the number of claims filed each...
Mississippi Delta
...of cheap labor, on which Delta plantations depended. By 1910, tenants operated ninety-two percent of Delta farms, and ninety-five percent of those tenants were African American. New ethnic groups also...
Palomares Bajo
...non-nuclear high-explosive components detonated. Startled, sisters-in-law Esperanza Ponce and María Serrano, working on their farm, now were worrying about their children at school. Through classroom windows, terrified students saw skies...
Andalusia: Photographs of Flannery O'Connor's Farm
...Another connection for me is that my late mother attended Georgia State College for Women (as it was then known) a few years ahead of O'Connor. Their paths might have...