15th and McFarland, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, April 2011
A Woman's Work: Jim Crow Modernity and the Remaking of the Carceral State
...Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Rosetta Records, 1987. Bottom, Portrait of Bessie Smith, February 3, 1936. Photograph by Carl Van Vechten. Courtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, loc.gov/item/2004663572. Extending...
Three Black Towns: An Excerpt from Black Landscapes Matter
...ca. 1920–1940. Sketch map by Alice M. Grant based on the work of Zora Neale Hurston and Everett L. Fly. Originally published in "Eatonville Historic Trails ISTEA Proposal," 1996. Courtesy...
Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg
...preserve the culture and contributions of people of African descent."2Jessie Carney Smith, editor, Notable Black American Women: Book One (Detroit: Gale Research, 1991), 738. Two years after Matthews's speech, in March 1897,...
Stormy Banks and Sweet Rivers: A Sacred Harp Geography
...of dating and place of publication, see Metcalf, 89-97; Lowens and Britton, 115-37; Bealle 269, n. 1). This compilation of primarily American music incorporated shape-notes, or patent-notes, for the first...
Queer Memory: Loss, Martyrs, and Memorialization in Southern Florida
...Orlando1Virginia Woolf, Orlando: A Biography (Orlando, FL: Harcourt, 1956), 78. Sankofa: go back to fetch it. The implied subject is the imperative "you," as in "you go back to fetch...
The Bulletin—March 5, 2013
...living in and intellectually engaging with the US South. On March 3, 2013, doctors announced that a baby born in rural Mississippi had been "functionally cured" of HIV infection. The...
Central America Protest, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, March 25, 1984
...staged a march commemorating the assassination of Salvadorian Archbishop Oscar Romero four years earlier. Both CASC and SDCA distributed leaflets and information to people leaving church services about their respective...
Preserving the Memory of Ybor City, Florida
...ethnic social clubs from the area, Tampa, Florida, 19--. Catalog no.: N043529. Donn Dughi, Representative Elvin Martinez with Latin princesses and a cigar, Tallahassee, Florida, April 30, 1987. Catalog no.:...
Hearing the Call: The Cultural and Spiritual Journey of Rosemary McCombs Maxey
...say there are five thousand Creek speakers left, but nobody seems to know where that number comes from, and many suggest there are only a few hundred speakers, some even far fewer....