Going South, Coming North: Migration and Union Organizing in Morristown, Tennessee
...South: An Historical Overview," in Racism and the Denial of Human Rights: Beyond Ethnicity, M. Berlowitz and R. Edari., eds. (Minneapolis: Marxist Educational Press, 1983), 77-96; Eric Arnesen, Waterfront Workers...
Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...in operation. Animation by Steve Bransford and Brian Riedel, 2020. Dataset by Brian Riedel, 2015. ArcGIS map by Stephanie Bryan and Brian Riedel, 2020. That animation suggests several phases to...
Slavery's Traces: In Search of Ashley's Sack
...named Rose, valued at $700. The full listing reads: Slave Cicero 1,000, slave Sophia 300, slave Jane 400 Slave Jack 800, slave Rose 700, slave David 800, old woman 100...
Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters
...River Valley Edition, 23 May 2002, NRV3; Donna Alvis-Banks, "Still the Good Old Days—and Nights—at the Starlite," Roanoke Times, New River Valley Edition, 4 September 1994, NRV16. Dot met her...
Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement
...Douglas Martin, "Julius Chambers, a Fighter for Civil Rights, Dies at 76," New York Times, August 6, 2013, https://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/07/us/julius-chambers-a-fighter-for-civil-rights-dies-at-76.html; "Hawkins v. North Carolina State Board of Education," Race Relations Law...
The Color of Democracy: A Japanese Public Health Official’s Reconnaissance Trip to the US South
...Press, 2007), 78-108. Popular books written by eugenicists such as Madison Grant’s 1916 The Passing of the Great Race and Lothrop Stoddard’s 1920 The Rising Tide of Color Against White...
Low-Wage Legacies, Race, and the Golden Chicken in Mississippi: Where Contemporary Immigration Meets African American Labor History
...with the history of the long civil rights movement, particularly in the late 1960s to early 1980s.12On the long civil rights movement, see Jacqueline Dowd Hall, "The Long Civil Rights...
Encountering COVID
...was no help. And the state system was not equipped to handle the massive number of unemployment insurance claims. Before COVID, we usually had about 800 or so claims a...
Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations
...right status structured the distribution of legislated rights in colonial Latin America; certain lineages who controlled power locally could also shape access to customary rights for all. But beyond the...
Vale of Amusements: Modernity, Technology, and Atlanta's Ponce de Leon Park, 1870–1920
...fifteen-hundred and two-thousand parks with names like Electric, Riverside, and White City stood outside small towns and major cities. Locals flocked to parks' mechanical rides and novel attractions; historian Lauren...