States' Rights Resurgent: The Attack on the Voting Rights Act
..."state sovereignty" invoke the notion of the United States government as a federal system of fifty state governments, each possessing powers that the national government cannot abridge without a compelling...
All Roads Led from Rome: Facing the History of Cherokee Expulsion
Georgia, 1831. Map by Young & Delleker, Sc. Published by A. Finley. Courtesy of the Historic Maps collection, Georgia Archives, University System of Georgia. Georgia led the United States in the expulsion...
Atlanta's Black Population
Maps for Figure 6, Andrew Wiese, African American Suburban Development in Atlanta Kevin Kruse, White Flight and the Making of Modern Conservatism Published: 29 September 2006 © 2006 Andrew Wiese...
Huntsville, Alabama images
...Army. It claims to be the world's largest space attraction. It also houses the graves of Able and Baker, monkeys who flew on a 1959 Jupiter test flight. Published: 28...
At Sun Ra's Grave
...hung in a bronze policeman's grip. Dew rises through the halflight, a gauze, departing wings. * One drifts in the neon glow of the church's sign, News wrapped tight around...
The "Achilles' Heel" of Jim Crow: A Review of Landscapes of Exclusion
...White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2005). Top, Jones Lake State Park, Bladen County, North Carolina, ca. 1940. Photograph by unknown...
Brick by Brick: Atlanta’s Collier Heights
Introduction Herman J. Russell Home at 714 Shorter Terrace in the Collier Heights neighborhood of Atlanta, 2015. In August 2015, the Collier Heights home of Herman J. Russell (1930–2014), African...
"Aint that Something?"
...of cousins and "outlaw" uncles and family friends with wonderful names, by the way: Crater, Decent, Pickle, Cinderella, Big Jan. Dawn rarely sees her flighty mother who started "grieving out...
Desegregation, Delaware, and Civil Rights Liberalism: A Review of Brett Gadsden's Between North and South
...the same. What changed were matters of strategy, tactics, and language as the ground of the struggle was reconstituted in the wake of white flight and segregation in housing across...
Call for Submissions: Spatial Justice
...resegregation of places of residence, work, leisure, education, and worship Workplace democracy, union organizing, and corporate flight Gendered segregation, e.g. in state legislatures or boardrooms Age-based segregation Memory and memorialization...