Flatlands in the Outlands: Photographs from the Delta and Bayou
...as the region’s unique “spiritual geography.”7Tom Rankin, Sacred Space: Photographs from the Mississippi Delta (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1993), 7. Rankin’s three photographs in the “Outlands” exhibit chronicle the...
Glimpsing Andalusia in the O'Connor-Hester Letters
...center of that conversation. Acknowledgments All images of letters displayed are Copyright 1959, 1960, 1963 by Flannery O'Connor; Copyright renewed 1987, 1988, 1991 by Regina Cline O'Connor. Permission granted by...
"This is Not Dixie:" The Imagined South, the Kansas Free State Narrative, and the Rhetoric of Racist Violence
...off Kansas' hands what it called the "degenerate municipality."39Atchison Daily Globe, January 22, 1901; Leavenworth Times, January 25, 1901; Leavenworth Times, January 26, 1901; Leavenworth Times, January 27, 1901. Although the resolutions were...
Atlanta's Charis Books and More: Histories of a Feminist Space
...members marching in the Atlanta Gay Pride Parade, Atlanta, Georgia, 1973 Early History of Charis Books and More: 1974–1981 Photographer unknown, former owner Sherry Emory, founder Linda Bryant, and...
Reverend Will D. Campbell, Southern Racial Reconciler
Essay Al Clayton, Will Campbell, 1975. The Reverend Will D. Campbell, a "renegade" Baptist preacher whose unorthodox ministry to a far-flung parish of unchurched souls was the signifying hallmark of...
Sea Changes in Personhood
...of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. —The Tempest Wifredo Lam's The Jungle, gouache on paper mounted on canvas, 1943. Photograph by...
On Native Ground: Indigenous Presences and Countercolonial Strategies in Southern Narratives of Captivity, Removal, and Repossession
...Removal Routes from James W. Clay, Paul D. Escott, Land of the South (Birmingham, AL: Oxmoor House, 1989). As Indian removal gets underway in the early 1830s, captivity narratives situated...
Memorializing the Freedom Riders
...1961. Courtesy of Birmingham Civil Rights Institute. On May 14, 1961, a Greyhound bus carrying seven Freedom Riders, organized by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), traveled south from Atlanta...
Goin' to Chicago and African American "Great Migrations"
...George King, originally broadcast on PBS in 2000. In making Goin' to Chicago, I wanted to recognize the power of expressive culture—language, food, spiritual life, and particularly music. I also...
Sonic Zora in Florida
...her return.5Boyd, Wrapped in Rainbows, 325; Bordelon, "Mule on the Mount" transcription, 163–164; Herbert Halpert, "Tentative Record Check List: southern recording expedition," March 12– June 30, 1939, Herbert Halpert 1939...