"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...be a consistent ally of conservative whites, giving them a free hand, enabling "a moratorium on all African American appointees throughout not only the South, but also the North" and...
Scales Intimate and Sprawling: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Geography of Marriage in Virginia
...continuing her marriage to Barbour, so he forbade the freedman from trespassing on his property and shot at him when he did. Poe brought Barbour before the Freedmen's Court, arguing...
Good-Bye to All That?
...the Koch Brothers. Through the 1990s and the last decade, the wealthy retail magnate relentlessly promoted a right-wing agenda even as he used his considerable clout to defeat moderate Republican...
North Carolina: A State of Shock
...chapter on the state "North Carolina: The Progressive Myth," (New York: Basic Books, 1976), 218–247. Naked Partisanship All that has changed. With a Republican governor and Republican controlled legislature, legislation...
Spectacles of American Nationalism: The Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama Painting and The Birth of a Nation
...1887.56Advertisement, Detroit Free Press, February 27, 1887, 3. Black Jack's panoramic image and the accompanying promotional publicity burnished his reputation as one of the most successful Civil War generals on...
Genres of Southern Literature
...of women's and African American literature. Considering African American and southern women's literary history apart from that of white or white male writers has been responsible for sometimes meaningful, but...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Two
...was to prevent freed slaves from becoming free labor, people able to sell their labor as workers. The passing of the Codes was an attempt to continue slavery. In the...
Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg
...African descent from the African continent and its diasporas. I have been asked to speak on the theme "Archiving Africana" with an eye towards helping you rediscover Africana archives as...
The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance
...major battles and the armies that fought them: The fact that African American slaves were bought and sold in Atlanta and were used to build earthen fortifications that encircled the...
Low-Wage Legacies, Race, and the Golden Chicken in Mississippi: Where Contemporary Immigration Meets African American Labor History
...by white women. As becomes clear in discussions of worker organizing, the local industry's racial desegregation revolves largely around African American women. Telling the story of African Americans' eventual entry...