Hearing the Call: The Cultural and Spiritual Journey of Rosemary McCombs Maxey
...say there are five thousand Creek speakers left, but nobody seems to know where that number comes from, and many suggest there are only a few hundred speakers, some even far fewer....
Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville
...one unified (though still largely segregated) school system with about 85,000 students (79% white, 22% black, 1% "other"). 1969: Twelve years into desegregation, Nashville’s public schools have failed to eliminate...
Encountering COVID
...was no help. And the state system was not equipped to handle the massive number of unemployment insurance claims. Before COVID, we usually had about 800 or so claims a...
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
...1 (January 1910): 22. See also Gregory Clark, "Why Isn't the Whole World Developed? Lessons from the Cotton Mills," Journal of Economic History 47, no. 1 (March 1987): 141–173. On...
Living Across Borders: Guatemala Maya Immigrants in the US South
...State, 1540 to 1988 (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1990). From the colonial era through most of the twentieth century, much of the Maya population lived in the Guatemala highlands...
"Out Yonder on the Road": Working Class Self-Representation and the 1939 Roadside Demonstration in Southeast Missouri
...Land Policy Review 3 (Jan.-Feb. 1940): 4-5; Daniel, Breaking the Land, 170-75. For the economic shape of rural re-development in the Bootheel, see Roll, Spirit of Rebellion, 116, 161. In...
Lift Every Voice and Sing: The Quilts of Gwendolyn Ann Magee
...with her adoptive mother, schoolteacher Annie Lee Jones.3Roland Freeman, "Journey of the Spirit: The Art of Gwendolyn A. Magee," in Barilleaux, Journey of the Spirit. Fascinated with color, Magee recalled trying...
John Cohen in Eastern Kentucky: Documentary Expression and the Image of Roscoe Halcomb During the Folk Revival
...February 12, 1961: 11. Royalties statement for Mountain Music of Kentucky, 1961. In many ways, Cohen and his peers projected themselves onto Halcomb. Cohen's portrayal of Halcomb as a solitary, romantic, creative...
The Tennessee Jamboree: Local Radio, the Barn Dance, and Cultural Life in Appalachian East Tennessee
...eds. Beverly Diamond and Robert Witmer. (Toronto: Canadian Scholars' Press, 1994), 175- 176, 181. The Tennessee Jamboree must be understood in the broader context of the barn dance genre, and...
Slavery's Traces: In Search of Ashley's Sack
...1932, 5; Sept. 8, 1932, 5; Dec. 21, 1933, 6; Feb. 3, 1938, 6; Feb. 17, 1938, 6; March 3, 1938, 5; April 7, 1938, 6; Dec. 13, 1939, 9;...