Cajun South Louisiana
...the Canary Islands, and such Native American tribes as the Houma, Bayou Goula, and Choctaw. A big aligator, about 800 lbs. Photograph by ST Blessing. Courtesy of The Miriam and...
Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron
...Jackson's Tigrett Junior High School in 1962, her grandson Gil joined Madeline Walker and Gillard Glover in assisting the community's efforts to democratize the local school system. Looking back on...
African Americans in Atlanta: Community Building in a New South City
...church's most significant social endeavor. Since the Atlanta public school system did not begin operations until 1872 and had only three grammar schools for Blacks, early Black education in Atlanta...
A Conversation with Digital Historians
Careers and Possibilities How did you get your start in the digital humanities? Robert K. Nelson: In 1997, at the end of my first year of graduate school, I needed...
Selma Bridge: Always Under Construction
...was wonderful to meet him, but no, I think another has my vote."1Charles J. Dean, "In Black Belt, McCain Wins Hearts, Not Votes," Birmingham News, April 22, 2008. Edmund Pettus...
Reverend Will D. Campbell, Southern Racial Reconciler
...born on July 18, 1924, on an eighty-acre cotton farm near the village of Liberty, in south Mississippi. He and his two brothers and one sister attended the public schools...
Reconsidering Appalachian Studies
...Authors Phillip Obermiller, Chad Berry, and Shaunna Scott, Hindman Settlement School, Hindman, Kentucky, June 5, 2014. Photograph by Rita Ritchie. Courtesy of Hindman Settlement School. Dr. Chad Berry is Berea...
Just a number, Old Bryce Hospital Cemetery, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 2007
The Bulletin—May 8, 2013
...instituted a voucher system that would give parents the choice to use money the state had allocated to pay for their child's public education to pay private school tuition. Tuesday,...
Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
...originally published in this volume by Victor Séjour as "Le Mulâtre." As a native of New Orleans and resident of the French Quarter, Séjour spoke French, attended private school, and...