The Save All Quilt [ca. 1880]
...the 1880s, silk was the preferred fabric for women's dresses for those who could afford it. The Snoddy family was wealthy by local standards, but Mary took seriously the virtues...
Whole Cloth Chintz Wedding Quilt [ca 1850]
...than practical. Rosa's new husband could certainly afford to provide the household goods the couple needed. In many communities, however, it was traditional for the bride's family to supply the...
Per Capita Income and Percentage of Residents Living Below The Poverty Line in Alabama Counties in the Lower Chattahoochee Region
Chambers Below poverty line %: 17.0 Per capita income: $15,147 Lee Below poverty line %: 21.8 Per capita income: $17,158 Russell Below poverty line %: 19.9 Per capita income: $14,015...
Per Capita Income and Percentage of Residents Living Below the Poverty Line in Georgia Counties in the Lower Chattahoochee Region
...Below poverty line %: 24.2 Per capita income: $14,539 Terrell Below poverty line %: 28.6 Per capita income: $13,894 Published: 16 March 2004 © 2004 Steve Bransford and Southern Spaces...
The "Achilles' Heel" of Jim Crow: A Review of Landscapes of Exclusion
...details how, during the 1950s and 1960s, southern states resisted, and responded to federal court rulings declaring park segregation unconstitutional. Some states, such as Kentucky and West Virginia, quietly, bitterly,...
Slavery's Traces: In Search of Ashley's Sack
...name Ruth Middleton. There are sixteen African American women across the nation in the 1920 US census named "Ruth Middleton." Two additional Ruth Middletons, who do not appear in the...
Category 3 Gentrification: On New Orleans's Population Trends and the Hostility of Internet Commenters
...posturing—of ownership of a place. Campanella's argument—that gentrifiers run the risk of both supplanting the working class population and turning the neighborhoods they renovate into sterile neighborhoods-qua-museums—is one that could...
Good-Bye to All That?
Election Day, 2014. I agreed to be a poll worker in the predominantly rural, working-class white precinct in Transylvania County, North Carolina, where my wife and I vote. After a...
Managing Malaria: The Emory University Field Station and The Melvin H. Goodwin Papers
...gates and high modern façades add a sense of permanence that belies the agency's earliest beginnings in rural South Georgia. Assimilating diverse research agendas, the CDC has worked to eradicate...
Sacred Harp, "Poland Style"
...where their titles have coincided with the names of European cities and countries where Sacred Harp singing now occurs. Singers such as Cath Saunt and Fynn Titford-Mock of Norwich in...