Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, and Biotechnology
...live below the poverty level, a number almost double the US average. When compared to other southern cities, the Memphis poverty rate of 23.5 percent is the same as Atlanta's...
Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville
...and similarly split districts in surrounding Davidson County, under Superintendent J. E. Moss. In round numbers, there were about ten thousand black students and twenty thousand whites in the city...
All Roads Led from Rome: Facing the History of Cherokee Expulsion
...removal site. As the home of the Cherokee Nation's most prominent leaders and the location of two military removal stations, Rome, Georgia has much to teach. Measuring Chains and Axes...
"Out Yonder on the Road": Working Class Self-Representation and the 1939 Roadside Demonstration in Southeast Missouri
...find that "good place."28Aubrey Williams to FDR, January 19, 1939, Folder "Tenant Farming, 1939-1944," Box 1, Official File 1650, FDR. A Red Cross official informed Missouri Governor Lloyd Stark that...
From Arkansas with Love: Evangelical Crisis Management and Southern (White) Gospel Music
...Ole Boys Defined a State (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2009), 4. To speak of an "Arkansas imaginary" in this essay is to conceptualize Arkansas as a site—particularly among poor...
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
...fifteen or sixteen years old, but most were in their late teens or early twenties. There were several mother-daughter pairs in the mill, and a number of the women working...
Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...pickup sites were racially segregated, a good number of them were racially mixed, especially in the late 1990s and beyond. Pickup sites in the Buford Highway corridor and the northern...
Mapping the Muggleheads: New Orleans and the Marijuana Menace, 1920–1930
...city's users.11Between May 1923 and December 1929, the Times-Picayune published at least three hundred stories with references to marijuana, roughly one per week. The number of articles mentioning marijuana more...
Crossing Over: Sustainability, New Urbanism, and Gentrification in Austin, Texas
...East Austin, the number of African American residents declined by 3,711 (14.5 percent) from 2000 to 2010.19City of Austin, "District 1 Demographic Profile," http://www.austintexas.gov/sites/ default/files/files/Planning/Demographics/District_1_demographic_profile_2000_2010.pdf, accessed March 18, 2015. Core...
St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History
...From the Florida Master Site File for the public market, found in the Historic St. Augustine Preservation Board Historic Properties Inventory Form. Public Market Clippings File, St. Augustine Historical Society...