Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black
...importunes you to the point of rage to buy cheap candy, Coca-Cola, and worthless, if not vulgar, books." Segregated waiting room at Union Station railroad depot, Jacksonville, Florida, 1921. Photograph...
Sonic Zora in Florida
...often "the prelude to creative effort."3Zora Neale Hurston to Carita Dogget Corse, December 3, 1938, in Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters (New York: Anchor, 2003), 417–418. By summer...
Beyond Fairyland: Writing and Curating Queer Miami
...was the "Florida" of Blacks and people of color; much of the same anti-Blackness and colonialism created the very conditions for Florida to become the "Florida" of the homosexual. I...
Separate and Unequal Schools: The Past Is Future
...no reliable data on the number of children with special needs enrolled in private schools. A small number were established to serve special needs students, but the vast majority do...
Cherokee Removal Scenes: Ellijay, Georgia, 1838
...removal began, and overstates the number of Cherokees sent from Fort Hetzel, the number removed from Gilmer County, and the number sent to Indian Territory. Incomplete narratives neglected the involvement...
The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape
...increase from forty-four to sixty-seven the number of post offices in Accomack and Northampton counties. The advent of the railroad in 1884 further stimulated the establishment of post offices both...
Queer Memory: Loss, Martyrs, and Memorialization in Southern Florida
...it." It is June 23, 2016: just ten days after a gunman killed forty-nine people at Pulse, a gay club in Orlando, Florida. You sit in the Kashi Atlanta Urban...
Demon Rum and Politics in Middle Florida: A Review of Southern Prohibition
...The author's choice of Middle Florida makes sense considering the book's time frame: 1820-1920. From the Territorial era through the Great War (the other great war), Middle Florida commanded the...
All Roads Led from Rome: Facing the History of Cherokee Expulsion
...removal," voluntarily hastened to the post "in large numbers." As night fell, "two hundred and fifty Indians slept quietly in the fort." In a brightly optimistic flourish, the article closed,...
Low-Wage Legacies, Race, and the Golden Chicken in Mississippi: Where Contemporary Immigration Meets African American Labor History
...recounts the story of how he came to Mississippi: Mississippi . . . I think God put it in my path. I was in Florida picking oranges. One afternoon I...