Dancing Around the "Glaring Light of Television": Black Teen Dance Shows in the South
...attempt to integrate Little Rock's Central High School, Little Rock, Arkansas, September 4, 1957. Photograph by Will Counts. Courtesy of Matthew F. Delmont. Changes to the structure of public life took...
"It's Being Black and Poor": Race, Class, and Desegregation at Pebblebrook High
...Roberts, Lessons from Little Rock (Little Rock: Butler Center Books, 2009), 30. Raised by a college-educated store clerk and a brick-mason, Carlotta Walls LaNier came from a family of resources...
Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville
...to prevent nine black students from enrolling at all-white Central High School in Little Rock. Before that conflict ended, the President of the United States would have to nationalize the...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
..."the cultural system of ideas about social and linguistic relationships, together with their loading of moral and political interests."5Judith T. Irvine, "When Talk Isn't Cheap: Language and Political Economy," American...
Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters
...to collaborate with local artists, vendors, and organizations on a range of other activities. Sponsors for the Rock and Roll Monster Bash — an annual June event featuring monster-rock bands,...
Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, and Biotechnology
...Smith moved his then-struggling fourteen small-plane delivery service from Little Rock, Arkansas, to his hometown of Memphis, the city experienced local difficulties associated with global processes of deindustrialization and a...
John Cohen in Eastern Kentucky: Documentary Expression and the Image of Roscoe Halcomb During the Folk Revival
...cultural life while revealing the poverty that an exploitative mining economy created. Clip from Roscoe Halcomb, "Across the Rocky Mountains," Disc One, Mountain Music of Kentucky CD, Smithsonian Folkways CD...
Atlanta's Charis Books and More: Histories of a Feminist Space
...in Little Five Points. . . . I had heard that Little Five Points was just crawling with lesbians and there was a lesbian press there and everything. So this...
Going South, Coming North: Migration and Union Organizing in Morristown, Tennessee
...immigration. In 1991, when the earliest footage was shot, most east Tennessee residents were not aware of the growing numbers of Latino immigrants. But some of the women on the...
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...