Love and Death at Second-Line
...car in the Quarter. Cell phones came out, some calling 911, others telling what happened. Word of mouth was that Joe the bar owner had shot the man for selling...
Ablaze: The 1849 White Supremacist Attack on the Pendleton Post Office
...Controversy over the Distribution of Abolition Literature (Washington, DC: The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, Inc., 1938), 115–6. A more recently scholarly study can be found...
Whatwuzit?: The 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics Reconsidered
...Atlanta was voted number two in Fortune's 1995 'Best Cities for Business' list, the city also ranks number two in the nation in income disparity between blacks and whites, number...
Negotiating Gender Lines: Women's Movement across Atlanta Mosques
...of a substantial number of prosperous black Atlantans, we might imagine that African American Muslims are more likely to live in Atlanta than in Chicago in the same neighborhoods or...
Mapping the "Big Minutes": Visualizing Sacred Harp's Geographic Coalescence and Expansion, 1995–2014
...year between 1995 and 2014 in sequence. Global Sacred Harp Singings, 1995–2014 Global Sacred Harp Singings, 1995–2014. Interactive Map by Jesse P. Karlsberg and Robert A. W. Dunn. View larger...
States' Rights Resurgent: The Attack on the Voting Rights Act
...Vol. 102, part 4 (Washington, DC: Governmental Printing Office, 1956), 4459–4460, http://www.pbs.org/wnet/supremecourt/rights/sources_document2.html. Six years later, after making a name for himself as a local state court judge who refused to...
The Bulletin—July 2, 2013
...Dallas County. During sentencing, prosecutors alleged that she had also stabbed to death two elderly women, and the jury sentenced her to die by lethal injection. Governor Rick Perry has...
The US South and the 2008 Election
...defense spending and the Sunbelt got the disproportionate share, whether it was defense contractors in southern California, aircraft manufacturers in Dallas and Atlanta, or nuclear reactors in South Carolina. As...
No Country for Old Hippies: Jason Mellard's Progressive Country
...The Outlaws. RCA Victor, 1976. Wanted! The Outlaws, 1976. Album Cover. RCA Victor. © RCA Victor. Wanted! The Outlaws does not simply deploy songs of masculine rebellion, it also contains ballads...
Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia
...communities and landscapes in a structure for sustaining both.6Tim Barnwell, The Face of Appalachia: Portraits from the Mountain Farm (New York: W. W. Norton, 2003), 121, 122, 126. The project...