Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters
...of darkened cars.5"Drive-in theater," Wikipedia; "Interactive Statistics," Drive-ins.com, http://www.drive-ins.com/stats.htm. The drive-in's popularity was short-lived. By the 1960s, their numbers began to decline. In the 1970s, many fell victim to suburbanization....
Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...Association Inc. is a Texas Corporation filed on September 2, 1975. The company's filing status is listed as Franchise Tax Involuntarily Ended and its File Number is 0036646201. The Registered...
Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, and Biotechnology
...Companies, the Fortune 500, and the Fortune Global 500. The company has won awards for innovation in information technology, including induction into the US Small Business Administration's Golden Anniversary Hall...
Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement
...In Virginia, both of its strategy commissions were named for their prominent businessmen chairs. The strategy groups issued recommendations in written reports explaining the imperatives for segregation, the rationale for...
Going South, Coming North: Migration and Union Organizing in Morristown, Tennessee
...They’re here and I don’t blame them. I’d come across the border every chance I got whether I was legal. If I was illegal that’s just fine too, I’d still...
Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville
...sent to a federal prison in Georgia in the spring of 1958, Kasper was usually in Tennessee but only rarely in custody. As a freelance provocateur, his services were in...
The Color of Democracy: A Japanese Public Health Official’s Reconnaissance Trip to the US South
...rapid increase in population in postwar Japan. They feared that population pressure and economic instability could once again push the nation into aggressive expansionism, possibly resulting in another war. Advancing...
"Within Thy Circling Pow'r I Stand": Immersive Video from Sacred Harp's Hollow Square
...is defined by its spatial organization as much as by its musical style. In this form of shape-note music, an assembled "class" of singers gathers at annual events called "singings"—weekend...
Taming Southern Waters: Christopher J. Manganiello’s Southern Water, Southern Power
...ways in which "decisions informed by energy needs and water insecurity influenced physical and political landscapes," (20) and, at its core, a history of "how private corporations, public institutions, and...
Dancing Around the "Glaring Light of Television": Black Teen Dance Shows in the South
...dance show, I think it was on channel 12, but one of the reasons I remember it is because I watched it. And I remember that there was a dance...