Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, and Biotechnology
...and greater than the New Orleans 20 percent rate documented before the diaspora set in motion by Hurricane Katrina.2US Census Bureau, "People Below Poverty Level in the Past 12 Months,"...
Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...to preserve his family's finances when the Great Depression hit. Driven to find an alternative source of income, John secured the modest patronage of the Library of Congress in the...
Living Across Borders: Guatemala Maya Immigrants in the US South
...to north Georgia where they had heard about job opportunities for immigrant workers. They joined many other Central American and Mexican immigrants who were leaving traditional destinations in California and...
Hoboken Style: Meaning and Change in Okefenokee Sacred Harp Singing
...February 1997. ), and the railroad with its great crossroads in Waycross, Georgia and continuing south through Florida. In 1910, the demographic breakdowns for Charlton County, Georgia—the heart of the...
Dancing Around the "Glaring Light of Television": Black Teen Dance Shows in the South
...Court combined into Brown v. Board of Education. In Raleigh, token school integration did not begin until 1960, six years after Brown.3Sarah Caroline Thuesen, Greater Than Equal: African American Struggles...
The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance
...2013. Nineteenth-century cycloramas, enormous circular paintings exhibited in specially designed round or polygonal buildings, achieved great popularity by immersing their audiences in a visual experience designed to make viewers feel...
Religion and the US South
...Great Awakening in the South was limited, it did lead northern Presbyterians, such as the Rev. Samuel Davies, to settle in Virginia and establish an evangelical presence. More important than...
Cajun South Louisiana
...Map Collection, University of Texas. While many people associate the southwest Louisiana home of the Cajuns with swamplands, its environment also consists of marshes, prairies, and wooded river areas. The...
The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape
...lodges and the shooting and yachting life in part because it echoed the plantation era's racial and class hierarchy. Here, he could survey the great marshes from a duck boat...
Going South, Coming North: Migration and Union Organizing in Morristown, Tennessee
...For instance, the great risks taken by workers while crossing the border are covered very briefly and illustrated with an image of a family running. In this essay we are...