Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement
...Justin Driver, "Supremacies and the Southern Manifesto," Texas Law Review 92 (2014): 1082, https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/journal_articles/4043/. These white men included die-hards, such as those found in the middle-class Citizens' Councils who usually...
Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters
...During the Depression few people were willing to spring for the price of tickets, and drive-ins slowly appeared on the outskirts of other urban areas, such as Galveston, Texas, Los...
Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, and Biotechnology
...Business," Memphis Business Journal, October 15, 2004, 1, 50. The presence of Federal Express also influenced Northwest Airlines' decision to establish a Memphis hub for passenger flights. For more than...
Inside Poor Monkey's
...night Po’ Monkey calls “Family Night,” and many people in the Delta will tell you that the weekend starts then. Guests are met at the door, either by Monkey or...
"It's Being Black and Poor": Race, Class, and Desegregation at Pebblebrook High
...black families and middle class black families. Mary Pattillo-McCoy, Black Picket Fences: Privilege and Peril among the Black Middle Class (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999), 20. So while middle-class...
Crossing Over: Sustainability, New Urbanism, and Gentrification in Austin, Texas
...area has undergone significant demographic change as middle class whites and upscale businesses have moved in.3Ryan Robinson, "Top Ten Demographic Trends in Austin, Texas," http://www.austintexas.gov/page/top-ten-demographic-trends-austin-texas, accessed December 18, 2014. Robinson...
Cultivating Freedom: A Review of Bobby Smith’s Food Power Politics
...“Mound Bayou,” Mississippi Encyclopedia, July 11, 2017, https://mississippiencyclopedia.org/entries/mound-bayou/. At its height, Mound Bayou, the “Jewel of the Delta,” housed successful Black businesses, a public school system, and a community-run hospital.2Rosen,...
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
...Rapidly industrializing regions, whether the New South in 1900, Ciudad Juarez in 1995, or China's Pearl River Delta in Guangdong Province in 2005, have taken full advantage of what has...
White Flight: The Strategies, Ideology, and Legacy of Segregationists in Atlanta
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Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
...to the WAVY statement is in Classen, Watching Jim Crow, 49. Classen considers the WAVY statement a thinly veiled "studied neutrality." Because we do not know whether WAVY broadcast anything...