The Color of Democracy: A Japanese Public Health Official’s Reconnaissance Trip to the US South
...“Black Belt,” indicated by a concentration of “black dots”—representing the black population—in the Mississippi Delta region. He added a comment to the map that the “Black Belt” was gradually moving...
Sapelo Island Flyover
...island to the state, which the Georgia Department of Natural Resources now manages. The western edge of Sapelo is part of NOAA's National Estuarine Research Reserve system, termed the Sapelo...
Taming Southern Waters: Christopher J. Manganiello’s Southern Water, Southern Power
...citizens challenged one another to manage natural resources equitably while stimulating and sustaining economic growth" (12). There is much in this book that will be familiar to scholars of southern...
Interstate Road Project, Single-State History: Tammy Ingram's Look at the Dixie Highway
...help plan, build, or manage such projects. As a vehicle for examining America's transportation and modernization politics at a key moment of the country's rail-to-auto transition, the Dixie Highway project...
Besieged Terrain
...Robinson Forest, located in the Cumberland Mountain section of the Appalachian Plateau. Reece and Krupa ask "Why is Robinson Forest worth saving?" and "How should it be managed in the...
The Suburban Wild: Coyotes in Druid Hills
...Center, the Metro Atlanta Coyote Project studies behaviors and activity patterns of urban coyotes in order to develop more effective management strategies of these populations. Mary Paglieri of the Little...
Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia
...poorest people? It happens because the economy here has revolved around the concentrated ownership of one resource—coal—for more than a hundred years. Denny Tyler, Native plants manage to survive on...
They Never Witnessed Such a Melodrama
...opera house. Potter was the black manager of a segregated poolroom where Clarence Mitchell, a young white liveryman, and a friend had come to play. When they refused to pay,...
African Americans in Atlanta: Adrienne Herndon, an Uncommon Woman
...Belasco, America's leading theater manager, who had seen her work in New York and confirmed her talent. "You will undoubtedly make a fine character actress," he had written (Belasco 1904)....
Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
...manager: "If you could let people know I need some people, I would love to have them after they get off of work to pick some berries." That afternoon at...