Mississippi Delta
...that eventually brought political change, leading to increased African American political participation in the Delta. Civil rights leaders like Fannie Lou Hamer, Aaron Henry, and Amzie Moore became central figures...
All Roads Led from Rome: Facing the History of Cherokee Expulsion
...federal government and the state of Georgia provided for federal extinction of Indian land title in exchange for state relinquishment of its western lands. No other state had such a...
The Greatest Slave Rebellion in Modern History: Southern Slaves in the American Civil War
Video Part 2: The Greatest Slave Rebellion in Modern History: Southern Slaves in the American Civil War Part 3: The Greatest Slave Rebellion in Modern History: Southern Slaves in the American...
"Rights Still Being Righted": Scottsboro Eighty Years Later
...Americans from jury pools.1Powell v. Alabama, 287 US 45 (1932); Norris v. Alabama, 294 US 587 (1935). Carol M. Highsmith, Scottsboro Boys Museum and Cultural Center, Scottsboro, Alabama, 2010. Courtesy...
African Americans in Atlanta: Community Building in a New South City
...old racial order. The city's African American population contended with the framework of this struggle. In 1870, Blacks accounted for nearly half of Atlanta's population. As free persons they competed...
Whole Cloth Chintz Wedding Quilt [ca 1850]
...from Fauquier County, Virginia, sometime before 1800. A Baptist minister, he married a Miss Stringfellow, and they had eight children. Their son Silas was born in 1800. In 1825 Silas...
An Unflinching Look: An Interview with Photographer Benjamin Dimmitt
...I was doing. And then climate change arrived, and I didn't really change my approach and become a different sort of photographer. I just photographed the impact. There was nothing...
Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...loam soils well suited for agriculture. A mythical presence in American history, the Mississippi defined the culture and economy of Middle America along its length. Native Americans settled on its...
Good-Bye to All That?
...for broad sacrifice from the American people, who bluntly told them there was no free lunch. And Americans hated it. Ronald Reagan set the template: every candidate that followed, with...
North Carolina: A State of Shock
...for changes in the state's election laws has been naked partisanship. Every change in North Carolina's new election code was targeted at reducing potential Democratic voters regardless of race, creed,...