Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville
...pre-registration and canvassing data, only six of those were categorized as schools where desegregation was "probable" on opening day; by that date, the number had risen to eight. See statistical...
Low-Wage Legacies, Race, and the Golden Chicken in Mississippi: Where Contemporary Immigration Meets African American Labor History
...leaves for Mississippi." Thursday. Then on Thursday I would fly back to Mississippi. On Friday I was here waiting for them with money, housing, everything.56Luis Cartagena, interview with Angela Stuesse,...
All Roads Led from Rome: Facing the History of Cherokee Expulsion
...marched in with his Oglethorpe County infantry company, increasing the number of soldiers to 155 men. With removal just two days away, the privates in Means's company must have been...
Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, and Biotechnology
...Orange Mound neighborhood, intersection of Airways Boulevard and Lamar Avenue, Memphis, TN, 2009. These numbers conflict with the stated goals of present-day development efforts to create a niche for Memphis...
Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...at 94 in 1982. During the 1980s, Houston endured the double impact of HIV/AIDS and the long economic fallout of the 1981 oil bust. The number of queer businesses began...
Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement
...number slightly above the percentage of the Asian school-age population. Only white students and students with Asian ancestries were in private schools in numbers that exceeded or generally matched their...
Before Tuskegee: Public Health and Venereal Disease in Hot Springs, Arkansas
...of the Great Depression—just as the PHS dismantled a number of pilot projects designed to provide mass treatment to syphilitic blacks. Although many of the initiatives undertaken in Hot Springs...
Encountering COVID
...now when I walk down the street, it can be a beautiful day, months and months after my mom has passed and I'm having a good day and somebody who...
"Within Thy Circling Pow'r I Stand": Immersive Video from Sacred Harp's Hollow Square
...days spent in churches or community centers singing songs from The Sacred Harp, a nineteenth-century Georgia tunebook revised every generation or so. The tunebook uses a pedagogical system in which...
Going South, Coming North: Migration and Union Organizing in Morristown, Tennessee
...on that day—suggest the potential power of strategies that include and unite. Today the union at the Morristown chicken plant survives but faces tough challenges. Many poultry processing plants remain...