Navigating Jim Crow: A Review of Adolph L. Reed's The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
...of the Arkansas Delta and New Orleans, moved back to the South where he grew up in Pine Bluff, Arkansas,and the Crescent City. Reed attended college in Chapel Hill, North...
No Place To Be Displaced: Katrina Response and the Deep South's Political Economy
...June 5, 2007. In 2006, facing drastic cuts, the CMRTA unsuccessfully petitioned city and county governments in Columbia, Richland County, and the West Metro Area for a dedicated source of...
Ten Dollars and a Bus Ticket
...Alabama. He hopes to work in international or public policy law. Catalina "CJ" McCormick is also a 2009 graduate of the University of Alabama with a degree in communications and...
Unhappy Trails in the Big Easy: Public Spaces and a Square Called Congo
...statute of Louis Armstrong clutching a trumpet in one fist and a sweat-soaked handkerchief in the other. There’s even a bronze likeness of Buddy Bolden in triplicate, whose cornet playing...
Family Forestry in Twiggs County, Georgia / Live in Macon at the Douglass Theatre
...Plantation located in Twiggs County, Georgia. To help shape policy and to promote sound forestry management practices in the United States, Leavell published Forever Green: The History and Hope of...
Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville
...of the federal district courts. The NAACP attorneys promptly petitioned Nashville's school officials to begin the desegregation process, but again, the Board of Education took no formal action. On the...
Ablaze: The 1849 White Supremacist Attack on the Pendleton Post Office
...advertisements. In one dated October 27, 1843, the local sheriff's office not far from Pendleton offered for sale Lenah and Jack with their children Beck, Peter, and three "younger ones"...
Slavery's Traces: In Search of Ashley's Sack
...filed 9 January 1858, and papers, filed 18 April 1858; Miberry S. Martin v. Edward Petit, 2 July 1859–1861, March 1860, Court of Equity Records, South Carolina Department of Archives...
Dancing Around the "Glaring Light of Television": Black Teen Dance Shows in the South
...challenge to Bandstand's discriminatory admissions policies.15Art Peters, "Negroes Crack Barrier of Bandstand TV Show," Philadelphia Tribune, October 5, 1957; "Couldn't Keep Them Out [photo]," Philadelphia Tribune, October 5, 1957; Delores...
The Vanished World of the New Orleans Longshoreman
...proved slow to adopt facilities capable of handling "the box," choosing instead to bank on its historical geographical advantages in grain, petrochemicals, coffee, and other bulk commodities.4The New Orleans Times-Picayune...