The Color of Democracy: A Japanese Public Health Official’s Reconnaissance Trip to the US South
...given a detailed schedule after landing in San Francisco. From there, he was told, he would head south via Los Angeles, change trains at New Orleans, stay in Mississippi (Jackson,...
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...from the cave by Nahum Ward in 1816; pseudo-archeological narratives described long-lost civilizations of human or near-human races living deep underground; ghost stories and legends told of Indian spirits haunting...
Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the US South, 1997–2007
...of the Los Angeles Ghetto, 1890-1930,"Pacific Historical Review 39:3 (August 1970): 323-352, 331. In Miami, another distinct blend formed, as African Americans with roots in the US South formed but...
Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement
...clause."49Carl, Freedom of Choice, 48–53; "Louisiana Legislators Go Home; Teachers Miss Pay," Southern School News, January 1961, 1, 8–11; Poindexter, 275 F. Supp. 833. Thomas J. Pearsall, a North Carolina...
Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black
...Stuff: Looking through the Window of a Jim Crow Train," New York Amsterdam News, November 13, 1943, 8B. The rudeness continued inside the Jim Crow car. "The conductor appropriates two...
Latinos, the American South, and the Future of US Race Relations
...University of Southern California. He is the author of Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900–1945 (Oxford University Press, 1993), co-editor of Los Angeles and...
"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio
...her condo in Long Beach, California. I had spent the past few weeks perusing her papers at the ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives in Los Angeles mostly on a...
The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance
...was located on high ground north of the railroad tracks, opposite Oakland Cemetery. Confederate Memorial Day ceremonies, Oakland Cemetery, Atlanta, Georgia, April 26, ca. 1881, Leslie's Illustrated Weekly. Sketch by James Henry...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...12,960 (4.4%) 297, 052 Orange County 308, 244 (26.9%) 149,457 (13%) 1,145,956 Osceola County 122,146 (45.5%) 72,986 (27.2%) 268,685 Buenaventura Lakes 18,160 (69%) 11,618 (44.5%) 26,079 In comparison to past...
"Beer, Prayer and Nellydrama": (Im)Possibilities in Max Vernon's The View UpStairs
...Arson, 29. Up Stairs became a hub for the Metropolitan Community Church (MCC), a Los Angeles based Protestant LGBTQ+ congregation that was founded and led by the openly gay Reverend...