Race, Capitalism, and the Rise and Fall of Black Beach Communities
...of American History, Smithsonian Institution, AC0800-0000006. Kahrl traces the origins of African American excursion companies and riverside resorts that tapped into the stream of black leisure dollars along the Potomac...
Undoing the Voting Rights Act
...racial disparity burdens only a small number of minority voters in a small, rural polling place, does the relatively "small" size of the harm argue against a finding of a...
Mapping the "Big Minutes": Visualizing Sacred Harp's Geographic Coalescence and Expansion, 1995–2014
...rhetoric and southern romanticism.2John Bealle, Public Worship, Private Faith: Sacred Harp and American Folksong (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1997); Kiri Miller, Traveling Home: Sacred Harp Singing and American Pluralism...
Racial breakdown of the population of the fourteen Georgia counties in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley.
County White Alone, #, 2000 White Alone, %, 2000 Black Alone, #, 2000 Black Alone, %, 2000 Chattahoochee 8,643 58.08 4,453 29.92 Clay 1,290 38.43 2,030 60.47 Decatur 16,126...
Color Photographs from the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information
John Vachon, Workers leaving Pennsylvania shipyards, Beaumont, Texas, 1943. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Color Photographs Collection, LC-USW36-839. Southern Spaces recently added six new images to the...
Sprinkle Creek, North Carolina
...Sprinkle Creek with NCDOT geologist, Rick Lockamy, to conduct core rock sampling, Sprinkle Creek, NC, 2994. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. NCDOT geologist, Rick Lochamy, studying maps in preparation for...
CDC in the Pandemic's Wake
Commentary Multiple COVID-19 waves have left in their wake compelling evidence of long overlooked gaps in pandemic readiness and responsiveness. The primary lesson for the US public health and healthcare...
The Makers of the Sacred Harp
...In the case of the “revival spiritual songs” that began to appear in great numbers in 1840s tunebooks, including The Sacred Harp, Steel speculates that some may have had their...
"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...
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...