1108 Dynamite Hill
...line between white and Black property: white residents on the west side and Black residents on the east side. Ignoring Jim Crow, Drew's family and other Black families crossed the...
American Coast, Imperiled Energy: Jason P. Theriot’s American Energy, Imperiled Coast
...Loss in the Northern Gulf of Mexico: Multiple Working Hypotheses," Estuaries 20, no. 1 (1997): 1–13. Wetland loss between 1956 and 2008 near Delacroix, Lousiana. Slides from Southeast Lousiana Flood...
Farmland Blues: The Legacy of USDA Discrimination
...the USDA discriminated against all poor farmers, southern USDA officials focused on black farmers. The dramatic events of Freedom Summer in 1964 eclipsed an important SNCC initiative to elect black...
Nowhere [yet Everywhere] in the World: Cuban History and Sexuality in the Dramas of Abel González Melo
...here? Who were they? Little by little, I got closer to them. Many lived clandestinely in Havana; they had emigrated from the East of the island. All of these cisgender...
Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia
...show up in southern West Virginia or eastern Kentucky and open factories and offices. I wrote the Commons Communities Act after months of thinking about how the people of the...
Authorship in Africana Studies
...articulate their freedom within the context of Pan-Africanism. Unsurprisingly, perhaps, my writing of Imoinda was not only interested in presenting challenging black women. Instead, as Guarracino notes, the project as...
When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras
...Joseph AME Church. Shortly after the rally, 1,500 African Americans headed to Howard Johnson's to continue their protests. These protests persisted throughout the summer as part of the "Freedom Highways"...
Nearly exhausted sulphur vat from which railroad cars are loaded, Freeport Sulphur Co., Hoskins Mound, Texas, 1943
Resegregated Spaces: The Schools-to-Prisons Pipeline
...The Fire Ever Burning (2000, with Aaron Henry); Deep in Our Hearts: Nine White Women in the Freedom Movement (2000); Captive Lives (2000); a special issue of the journal Southern...
Mississippi as Metaphor State, Region, and Nation in Historical Imagination
Mississippi as Metaphor Part 2: Dr. Crespino discusses and suggests the limits of James Silver’s image of Mississippi as “the closed society” Part 3: Dr. Crespino traces the idea of Mississippi as...