Social Justice Environmentalism
...linked racial progress and anti-pollution measures.9David Stradling and Richard Stradling, Where the River Burned: Carl Stokes and the Struggle to Save Cleveland (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2015), 146, 79,...
Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
...their arms. "For six long hours, Georges walked without a rest; at last he stopped, a few steps from a hut built in the deepest heart of the forest; you'll...
Unquiet Emmett Till
...to Congressman John Lewis. Mace is not the first to suggest this, but the point bears repeating. In Remembrance of Emmett Till is structured around newspaper and magazine coverage of...
Three Black Towns: An Excerpt from Black Landscapes Matter
...modest political and economic independence. Serving as a key organizing ground for the Regional Council of Negro Leadership, Mound Bayou attracted interest from prominent civil rights leaders like Medgar Evers....
Reckoning with Enslavement
...of the struggling college and sent more than two hundred men, women, and children into the cane fields of Louisiana. Most of the families torn apart in the sale could...
Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death
...General William Richardson Davie's tomb dominates this Davie memorial. It stands at the east side, at the end of a path from the entrance on the west. The stones of...
The Vanished World of the New Orleans Longshoreman
...more work at the hiring offices of shipping lines that used to be located at the foot of Canal Street, where Harrah's Casino now stands. At first blush, this suggests...
Opening Spaces: On Tolerance and the Possibility for Love
...All Strong: We Ranked All 50 from Fabulous to Failed," Politico Magazine, January 24, 2014, accessed February 3, 2014, http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/01/states-of-our-union-are-not-all-strong-102547.html. The strongest state, Massachusetts, is ironically the most "fabulous" state,...
Brown, Black, and White in Texas
...step of posting a detailed policy statement, titled 'Negroes,' on the serving of blacks in his Felix Mexican Restaurants," writes Behnken. "Most eating establishments simply hung a 'whites only' sign....
McGirt v. Oklahoma: Implications of the 2020 Supreme Court Decision for Native America
...important. States with large Native populations or states that care about Native citizens can pass a statute with regard to language access in the court system simply on a due...