"Looking Back and Moving Forward": The Records of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference at Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library
...significant responsibility for daily management. Born in Prattville, Alabama, in 1942, Taylor was raised by his grandparents who moved to Montgomery in 1953. He became involved in the Civil Rights...
Public School Politics: A Review of The End of Consensus
...and instability about schooling" and proved "extremely controversial" especially among the county's newest residents, who were least familiar with the district's diversity policy and who would also be called upon...
Social Justice Environmentalism
...Studying Plant Disease, ca. 1930–1943, Tuskegee, Alabama. George Washington Carver, an agricultural scientist, botanist, educator, and inventor, sought to ease sharecroppers' dependence on cotton by researching and promoting alternative crops....
New Pasts: Historicizing Immigration, Race, and Place in the South
...Southern studies, at least in its more traditional manifestations, and studies of immigration to the South are also driven by different political projects. Southern studies operates through a powerful discursive...
Sapelo Island Flyover
...blend of natural and human history. The western half of the island is composed primarily of Pleistocene sediments deposited along a shoreline 40–50,000 years ago. Much of its eastern half...
Mississippi Delta
...in the eastern floodplain of the lower Mississippi River. It is sixty miles at its widest point from the Yazoo to the Mississippi, in what poet William Alexander Percy called "a badly...
Ethnic Cleansing and the Trail of Tears: Cherokee Pasts, Places, and Identities
...challenge to remain balanced and to flow well (53–4). By setting in motion a space where people flow, where rivers and mountains are alive, where the East is associated with...
The Poetics of Rescue and Resilience: A Conversation with Jericho Brown on The Selected Shepherd
...the time, there is this idea: we are going to say what our actual experience is in our poems, and we are not coding it. The code will be the...
The Carolina Piedmont
...significant numbers. Enslaved African Americans made up ten percent of the Carolina Piedmont's population in the 1760s. By 1800, only two or three counties had black populations of more than...
The South as Foil: A Review of This Is Not Dixie
Review "By branding the South as the racist section of the country," writes Brent Campney, "those narrating the identity of other sections have found a foil against which they can...