The Bulletin—May 8, 2013
...instituted a voucher system that would give parents the choice to use money the state had allocated to pay for their child's public education to pay private school tuition. Tuesday,...
Struggle Against Disease and Discrimination: The Jesse Peel Papers
...The Jesse R. Peel Papers chronicle his activism among the Atlanta LGBT population through personal correspondence, date books, and audiovisual materials. The backbone of the collection is Peel's personal diary,...
The Web of Cis-Atlantic History: A Review of Louisiana: Crossroads of the Atlantic World
...and practices throughout the Atlantic world. This system not only circumscribed the meager legal rights of enslaved peoples, but also placed special emphasis upon policing the "intimacies" (123) of sex...
Georgia Slavery, Georgia Freedom
...Map by John Scoles. Originally published in John Low's A New and Complete Encyclopedia, Vol. 4, p. 64. Courtesy of the University of Georgia Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, hmap.libs.uga.edu/hmap/view?docId=hmap/hmap1810g4.xml. The age...
Three Black Towns: An Excerpt from Black Landscapes Matter
...indicator of the place attachment expressed by residents, the town's population increased after the rebuilding periods that followed numerous floods. Like Princeville, the town of Mound Bayou, Mississippi, also came...
Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death
...made, however, still stand in the Presbyterian churchyards of specific communities. Their dated stones memorialize particular people. Elsewhere the lives of these people and their neighbors are more fully recorded....
A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl
...Publishers in 1985, Especially at Christmas (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1969), reissued by Peachtree Publishers in 1985, Mothers Are Always Special (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1970), reissued by Peachtree Publishers in 1985, Day by Day...
The Vanished World of the New Orleans Longshoreman
...Association of Port Authorities ranks it as the nation's fifth largest port in terms of total tonnage.1Statistics on port volume available at American Association of Port Authorities, accessed March 4,...
The Black Belt
...the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/cph.3a53178/ Beyond its multi-county Alabama designation, the Black Belt as a landscape of primarily cotton agriculture and majority African American population covered...
Opening Spaces: On Tolerance and the Possibility for Love
...Anti-Violence Programs (NCAVP), the most at risk LGBTQ populations remained transgendered persons, people of color, and gay men. Stephens-Davidowitz confines his study to "gay men," without any mention of race...