Love and Death at Second-Line
...it was over, I looked fearfully for my family, who'd scrambled up the street. We carried the baby tightly — more to reassure ourselves — and walked quickly to our...
Collaborative Atlanta Studies Website Gathers Original Scholarship, Research, and Projects on Atlanta
...using ECDS's forthcoming Digital Atlanta Geocoder mapping system – will appear on a regular basis, Hatfield says. "We're always looking for new and interesting voices, and we're really excited about...
Lift Every Voice and Sing: The Quilts of Gwendolyn Ann Magee
...of fancy.2Edith Mayfield Wiggins, telephone conversation with author, July 10, 2014. Hers was a childhood surrounded by art publications and crafts in various media, and included museum trips to New...
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...
Stormy Banks and Sweet Rivers: A Sacred Harp Geography
...a limited number of tunes. Singing schools emerged to teach lay-persons the basics of reading and performing music. These schools operated independently of any congregation or denomination and were run...
Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond
...status of Mardi Gras Indian tribes was temporarily elevated in a social order that increasingly was looking to such creolized cultural symbols and performances as evidence of recovery—a return to...
Chattanooga, Tennessee images
Chattanooga, Tennessee: Inflatable Figures, Rock City, Lookout Mountain Located on top of Lookout Mountain, Rock City is only six miles from downtown Chattanooga. Woman on Cell Phone and Construction Site...
LiFT Art Salon: Hammonds House
...House original owner and resident Otis Thrash Hammonds, a prominent Atlanta physician and avid black art collector. A guest looks at the artwork, Atlanta, Georgia, July 12, 2015. Photograph by Clint Fluker. Courtesy of...
Goin' to Chicago and African American "Great Migrations"
...a comment from a researcher that I hired to track down historical film and video of black Chicago. One day during a phone call she expressed anger and frustration at...
A Woman's Work: Jim Crow Modernity and the Remaking of the Carceral State
...and to prove "her mind was not as strong as the average negro's." Their framing of Cobb was intentional. "Her description," writes Haley, as a 'horrible-looking person' may have been...