Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta's Public Spaces
...and women) occurred in and transformed downtown public and private sites. As the social relevance of downtown waned, gay life followed patterns of dispersal north and east into Midtown. The...
Andalusia: Photographs of Flannery O'Connor's Farm
...Arts Senior Lecturer in photography. Her work has been widely exhibited and can be found in many private and public collections, including Atlanta's High Museum of Art, the Museum of...
States' Rights Resurgent: The Attack on the Voting Rights Act
...private group that opposed desegregation), and advising voter registrars on how to block or frustrate black voting after the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965. Alabama's spy commission...
Segregation's New Geography: The Atlanta Metro Region, Race, and the Declining Prospects for Upward Mobility
...minority residents) has serious implications for black households' ability to build wealth through homeownership. The private real estate market tends to undervalue housing in more diverse neighborhoods, and the Great...
Call for Proposals for the Second Annual Atlanta Studies Symposium
...area. Potential themes for presentation topics include (but are not limited to): Public Space and Private Property Downtown Atlanta as a Site of Political Struggle Urban Mobility and Access Urban...
Reverend Will D. Campbell, Southern Racial Reconciler
...for almost four decades, Campbell was the director of a privately-funded network of religious activists called the Committee of Southern Churchmen, which had its origin in the Christian social gospel...
Struggle Against Disease and Discrimination: The Jesse Peel Papers
...celebrate the installation of Hope." In spite of the passionate efforts of Peel and his Build the Monument Foundation, the memorial never materialized due to a lack of private funding....
John Cohen in Eastern Kentucky: Documentary Expression and the Image of Roscoe Halcomb During the Folk Revival
...across porch frames, then on a lone cornstalk, and two butterflies fluttering nearby. Then viewers enter the private order and simplicity of home and bedroom. Dresses hang against a wall...
A Turning Point for Richmond: The Virginia Historical Society's Civil War Exhibition
...the Humanities and numerous private foundations. The VHS consulted with a roster of well-known historians.1The consulting historians include Stephen V. Ash, Charles F. Bryan, Jr., Catherine Clinton, Joseph T. Glatthaar,...
Music, Race, and Representation Post-Katrina: A Review of New Orleans Suite: Music and Culture in Transition
...huddled discussion off St. Claude Avenue after the storm; Blackwater private security trucks; an occupant in front of his B.W. Cooper housing project apartment and that same apartment closed in...