"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...break time, lunch time and/or if you are on the phone at the WCF office. Spanish speaking will only be allowed in the office if a customer is unable to...
Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville
Introduction At high noon, Nashville time, on Monday, May 17, 1954, all nine justices of the United States Supreme Court in Washington joined in a declaration that legally-sanctioned racial segregation...
Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
...decision was "based on an amendment adopted at a time when many of their forebears were disfranchised."18Richmond Times-Dispatch, June 5, 1963. "Dr. King Decides," Richmond Times-Dispatch, June 5, 1963. For...
Encountering COVID
...nails or giving a haircut. By the time breakfast was over, it was already lunchtime, and we were making sure that everybody was eating and getting their meals. Days were...
John Cohen in Eastern Kentucky: Documentary Expression and the Image of Roscoe Halcomb During the Folk Revival
Preface On a muggy Sunday afternoon in June of 1959, John Cohen wandered the winding mountain roads of eastern Kentucky searching for old-time musicians. Neon, Bulan, Vicco, Viper, Daisy, Defiance...
Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South
...copy of a letter that President Roosevelt had sent to an advisory committee of the National Emergency Council. The next day, Times readers learned that the President had declared the...
Southern Spaces: A Partial History
...always the day after yesterday. What can we gain by understanding the South not as a region, but as a geography of many changing regions and places? We developed and...
Low-Wage Legacies, Race, and the Golden Chicken in Mississippi: Where Contemporary Immigration Meets African American Labor History
...leaves for Mississippi." Thursday. Then on Thursday I would fly back to Mississippi. On Friday I was here waiting for them with money, housing, everything.56Luis Cartagena, interview with Angela Stuesse,...
An Interview with Tim Gautreaux: "Cartographer of Louisiana Back Roads"
...Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, and GQ, and selected for the anthologies Best American Short Stories, New Stories from the South: The Year's Best, and The O. Henry Awards' Prize Stories. His...
The Tennessee Jamboree: Local Radio, the Barn Dance, and Cultural Life in Appalachian East Tennessee
...Jamboree . . . here on Saturday night. We've had a nice time friends. You have a nice weekend. We'll see you again next Saturday night on the big Tennessee...