Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia
...here are at least twice that of the rest of the country. The people are mainly a rural, white population whose families have lived in Appalachia for generations, dating back...
Eggleston's South: "Always in Color"
...shooting pictures of southern rural poverty, and in 1970, the want remains. This is not a very promising place to make a life, no matter what the woman is carrying...
Race & Gender in the Latinx South: A Review of Cecilia Márquez’s Making the Latino South & Sarah McNamara’s Ybor City
...undocumented, darker-skinned Latinos. Elizabeth "Betita" Martínez, ca. 1960–1980. Photograph by Bob Fitch. Courtesy of the Bob Fitch Photography Archive, Stanford University Libraries. Márquez captures the shift that occurred in the...
In the Magic City
Birmingham The needle floats over and over the end of Coltrane's "Alabama," channeling in the rush of feet, of tires wearing down into the asphalt and the...
The Save All Quilt [ca. 1880]
...the 1880s, silk was the preferred fabric for women's dresses for those who could afford it. The Snoddy family was wealthy by local standards, but Mary took seriously the virtues...
Whole Cloth Chintz Wedding Quilt [ca 1850]
...than practical. Rosa's new husband could certainly afford to provide the household goods the couple needed. In many communities, however, it was traditional for the bride's family to supply the...
Per Capita Income and Percentage of Residents Living Below The Poverty Line in Alabama Counties in the Lower Chattahoochee Region
Chambers Below poverty line %: 17.0 Per capita income: $15,147 Lee Below poverty line %: 21.8 Per capita income: $17,158 Russell Below poverty line %: 19.9 Per capita income: $14,015...
Per Capita Income and Percentage of Residents Living Below the Poverty Line in Georgia Counties in the Lower Chattahoochee Region
...Below poverty line %: 24.2 Per capita income: $14,539 Terrell Below poverty line %: 28.6 Per capita income: $13,894 Published: 16 March 2004 © 2004 Steve Bransford and Southern Spaces...
Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery: From Slavery to Segregation
...William Fogel and Stanley L. Engerman, Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery, 2 vols. (Boston, MA: Little, Brown, 1974), 1:132; James Ford Rhodes, History of the...
The "Achilles' Heel" of Jim Crow: A Review of Landscapes of Exclusion
...details how, during the 1950s and 1960s, southern states resisted, and responded to federal court rulings declaring park segregation unconstitutional. Some states, such as Kentucky and West Virginia, quietly, bitterly,...