The Other Side of Paradise: Glimpsing Slavery in the University's Utopian Landscapes
...on public funds covertly funneled to it by the white-majority city council. The city government tended to ignore the historically African American two acres of the cemetery, containing many graves...
LiFT Art Salon: Hammonds House
...spread across the city's many neighborhoods. The rebranding of City Hall East, Krog Street, and the Atlanta Railroad as Ponce City Market, Krog Street Market, and the celebrated Atlanta Beltline underscores a shared aesthetic at the heart of...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Two
...sometimes unwitting, and sometimes conscious in our complicity with the seizure and occupation of the land from native people, complicity with the racist ideologies propagated to justify colonization, to justify...
States' Rights Resurgent: The Attack on the Voting Rights Act
...the United States, due process and equal protection of the laws, House apportionment based on "the whole number of persons," and citizens' right to vote without regard to "race, color,...
University of Texas Press and Southern Spaces Katrina Bookshelf Series Collaboration
...catastrophe by any standard. Some 1,800 persons were killed outright. More than a million people were forced to relocate, many for the remainder of their lives. A city of 500,000...
Leavenworth newspaper
...the State of Kansas. Blood was shed on Kansas soil for the negro." Leavenworth Times. Untitled. March 7, 1888. "Near Eskridge, a poor negro was treated to the methods...
Lawrence newspaper
...a family affair, and if they don’t keep their hands out of it, Kansas is likely to back Leavenworth up to sail in and do it again. Kansas demands for...
Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta's Public Spaces
...built environment and the experiences of its inhabitants—mark the city's particularities. Increasing numbers of cars, trolleys, buses, and taxis enabled movement between downtown and suburbs; rural and urban areas; "colored"...
Haiti and the Fear of Insurrection: A Review of The Slaveholding Crisis
...to push Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, or Delaware out of the Union and it took the firing on Fort Sumter and Lincoln's call for troops to cause Virginia, North Carolina, Arkansas,...
Social Justice Environmentalism
...unacknowledged environmentalism. When the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) campaigned to desegregate the bus system and open jobs to black citizens in Alabama's capital city, five of the organization's eight primary...