Hijacking Public Housing: A Review of New Deal Ruins
...the Urban Revolution (New York: Verso, 2012) and the New York-based, national Right to the City Alliance that emerged in 2007 as a housing and urban justice movement. Aerial view of Clark...
Eggleston's South: "Always in Color"
...the Mississippi Delta. It is the kind of road local people drive to reach Memphis or Clarksdale or walk to reach churches and stores and the gravel lanes that lead...
Reverend Will D. Campbell, Southern Racial Reconciler
...Convention, a satirical parable about the Southern Baptist Convention; biographies of two Mississippians, Episcopal Bishop Duncan Gray, Jr. and Robert Clark, a black political leader; and three books for children....
The Bulletin—March 5, 2013
...is demonstrated to work with other newborns, it will be widely recommended for use around the world. Marco McMillian, an openly gay African American mayoral candidate in Clarksdale, Mississippi, was...
Atlanta’s Tumultuous Fifties Fifty Years Later
Video Part 2: Dr. Crimmins discusses the Lane Brothers photograph collection, highlighting Atlanta's physical and cultural landscapes Part 3: Dr. Holmes examines how voter registration and Atlanta politics play into...
Prop Master at Charleston's Gibbes Museum of Art
...by an African American artist to become part of the Gibbes' collection: Claude Clark's Old Swede's Church, 1940. Only long after its accession did it become known that its printmaker...
From Raw Cotton to Cloth
Introduction Opened in 1968, the Katherine plant was the last of four Springs cotton mills operating in Chester, South Carolina. Hughes and Hall captured these images shortly before the plant...
Inside Poor Monkey's
Introduction Poor Monkey's sits in a cotton field in Bolivar County, west of the town of Merigold on the Hiter farm, land worked by members of the same family for...
Routes of Reconciliation: Visiting Sites of Cultural Trauma in the US South, Northern Ireland, and South Africa
...Maron, The group at Ground Zero Blues Club, Clarksdale, Mississippi, 2008. One Delta moment suggested the widened horizons made possible by bringing international students together with local people. A few...
Slipping Boundaries: The Tenacity of Aaron Henry
Presentation About the Author John Howard is Emeritus Professor of Arts and Humanities at King's College London. He is interested in the historical production of human differences and their attendant...