Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the US South, 1997–2007
...increasing number of Atlanta-based artists — including Ludacris, T.I., Bonecrusher, Gucci Man, and Young Jeezy — find national audiences, but the exposure of stylistic subgenres associated with Atlanta far outstripped...
Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
...1680–1920 (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1996), 1–2, 10, 12. For a discussion of industrialism in the "New South," see C. Vann Woodward, Origins of the New South (Baton Rouge:...
"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...meeting place of men famous in Georgia affairs." Notable patrons included politician and former Confederate general Robert Toombs; former Atlanta mayor Captain J.W. English; and Atlanta Constitution editors Henry Grady...
Negotiating Gender Lines: Women's Movement across Atlanta Mosques
...in the Atlanta ummah. Mosque communities, both urban and suburban, provide a helpful window into understanding how Atlanta Muslims negotiate ethnic spaces. Chris Yunker, Al-Farooq Masjid Mosque, Atlanta, Georgia, 2009....
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
...workers at Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills, Atlanta, Georgia, 1915. Courtesy of Georgia Tech Archives & Records Management, Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills Digital Collection. The experiences of women in...
Atlanta's Charis Books and More: Histories of a Feminist Space
...members marching in the Atlanta Gay Pride Parade, Atlanta, Georgia, 1973 Early History of Charis Books and More: 1974–1981 Photographer unknown, former owner Sherry Emory, founder Linda Bryant, and...
Whatwuzit?: The 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics Reconsidered
...Atlanta was voted number two in Fortune's 1995 'Best Cities for Business' list, the city also ranks number two in the nation in income disparity between blacks and whites, number...
Counterblast: How the Atlanta Temple Bombing Strengthened the Civil Rights Cause
Atlanta Temple Bombing On the morning of Sunday, October 12, 1958, shortly after 3:30 a.m., an explosion ripped through the Reform Temple on Peachtree Street in Atlanta. Although no one...
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...
DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
...antiaircraft artillery training center and prisoner of war facilities.7A. M. De Quesada, A History of Georgia Forts: Georgia's Lonely Outposts (Charleston, SC: History Press, 2011), 107–109. Plyler later wrote that...