Good-Bye to All That?
...the number of challengers in 2016 is likely to decline even further. Our neighboring South Carolina offers a window into the future. In this most recent election less than 25...
Visions for Sustainable Agriculture in Cuba and the United States: Changing Minds and Models through Exchange
...up from 11% in 2005.8USDA, "Household Food Security 2010," accessed March 12, 2012, http://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/food-nutrition-assistance/food-security-in-the-us/readings.aspx#.UZJLhaKce5I. Most Cubans lack housing options and do not have money for home repairs. They crowd onto...
Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
...of Steve Bransford. Navigate through the playlist using the menu on the top left. George Mitchell interviews George Daniel. Recorded by George Mitchell in [likely location] Creek Stand, Alabama, ca....
An Excerpt from Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
...however, something unexpected happened. An African American named Brenda Ethridge stepped up to the microphone. She introduced herself as a descendant of Aunt Grace, the first slave owned by Chang...
Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans
...count on one hand the number of writers given high administrative responsibility. Saxon was one of them, and maybe the most highly regarded of the lot. On several occasions Washington...
Coop Co-Op: Agrarian Ideals, City Codes, and the Backyard Chicken Movement
...Atlanta's, but many other municipal codes are silent. A number of cities, towns, and counties are facing an unexpected ambiguity: if there is nothing on the books about chickens, is...
Three Black Towns: An Excerpt from Black Landscapes Matter
...Regional boycotts, in 1952, of service stations and restrooms refusing to serve Black people were organized in Mound Bayou.3Peter Brown, "Strike City, Mississippi," Anarchy 7, no. 2 (1967): 33–37. And,...
Georgia Slavery, Georgia Freedom
...Jennison shares some of his most insightful findings. Using evocative stories of runaway slaves and the betrayal and murders of allied and non-allied Native Americans, he contends that the conflicts...
Social Justice Environmentalism
...demands presaged environmental justice themes. Laid out in a flyer entitled "Negroes' Most Urgent Needs," the MIA's concerns included "Negro Representation on the Parks and Recreation Board," "Sub-division for housing,"...
Haiti and the Fear of Insurrection: A Review of The Slaveholding Crisis
...of slavery" (5). Planters utilized the ideology of US uniqueness to attack anyone who attempted to interfere with slavery by accusing abolitionists of being dupes of the scheming British. The...