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Chattanooga, Tennessee: Inflatable Figures, Rock City, Lookout Mountain Located on top of Lookout Mountain, Rock City is only six miles from downtown Chattanooga. Woman on Cell Phone and Construction Site...
Goin' to Chicago and African American "Great Migrations"
...they were laid off after decades of steady employment. As one laid-off worker, Alvin Robertson, explains, “At my age [fifty-two], I didn’t think I was going to have to look...
Battle of Atlanta Project Discussion and Exhibit Set for July 17 at Emory's Woodruff Library
...Library continues to celebrate the launch of the Battle of Atlanta mobile tour website and commemorate the 150th anniversary of the battle with a presentation and exhibit of materials on...
St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History
...Enslavement The monuments commemorating the Foot Soldiers and Andrew Young construct new layers of meaning for the Plaza de la Constitución, yet the site is rarely labeled on tourist maps...
Public Health in the US and Global South
...German settlement patterns and raises questions about longstanding assumptions regarding the presence of slavery as the determining factor in German settlement. Selected from a large number of submissions, these essays...
Seneca Quarry
...The ARC Identifier is 3025595, MLR Number A1 18. Congratulations are in order for Professor Mark Auslander for publishing his well researched and excellent article, "Enslaved Labor and Building the...
Unhappy Trails in the Big Easy: Public Spaces and a Square Called Congo
...leftover tracts of land. No less engrossing is their history. According to Lake Douglas, author of Public Spaces, Private Gardens: A History of Designed Landscapes in New Orleans, and a...
Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism
...line of American poets who have touted the interpenetration of locality and racial consciousness: James Russell Lowell, Frances E. W. Harper, Emma Lazarus, Sarah Piatt, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Alexander Posey,...
Mourning Medgar: Justice, Aesthetics, and the Local
...landscape of Jackson, Mississippi in the summer of 1963 Texts Referenced James Baldwin, Excerpt from Blues for Mister Charlie (1964) Margaret Walker, "Micah" (1970) Eudora Welty, Excerpt from "Where is...
Category 3 Gentrification: On New Orleans's Population Trends and the Hostility of Internet Commenters
...a not-quite-attractive-enough limbo. For instance, even as Campanella uses the Bywater as an example of NOLA-gentrification par excellence, he ignores the relocation of New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA)...