MARBL Presents Atlanta Intersections: Susannah Darrow on Arts Organizations in Atlanta
...arts in and from Atlanta to champion and support vibrant creative communities across the Southeast. In 2014, Georgia Trend Magazine selected Darrow as one of Georgia's "40 Under 40." In...
Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia
...whatever forested commons they can still find. The act is meant to promote this social ecology. By combining land and livelihood—by fostering possession against a history of dispossession—it would reconnect...
A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave
...runaway slave from Georgia, hiding the fact that he was once a free man from most of the people he met in order to avoid even more brutal treatment. Northup's...
"Looking Back and Moving Forward": The Records of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference at Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library
...Montgomery and went on to Alabama State University, finishing his BA degree in 1965. In 1969, Taylor graduated from the Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta, Georgia, with a Master of...
The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape
...landscape. He considered Virginia's Eastern Shore "decidedly Deep Southern." Its landscape, structures, and their spatial arrangements made the region more like Georgia or Tidewater Virginia than Pennsylvania or even its...
Born In Violent Conquest: A Review of Jacksonland
...frontier lawyer and land-speculator to military commander and national politician and details Ross's life as a Cherokee merchant, slave-owning planter, and tribal leader. Inskeep describes the state of Georgia's campaign...
Sankofa Series: What Must Be Remembered
..."catalyst [and] economic juggernaut for US development."1Pellom McDaniels III, interview with author, December 14, 2015, Atlanta, Georgia. Transcription by author. Detail of 19th-century passbook. Photograph by Paige Knight. Courtesy of Pellom McDaniels...
Sacred Harp, "Poland Style"
...band director stationed at Fort McPherson, Georgia—explicitly framed his singing school as teaching the style of Sacred Harp singing practiced in West Georgia in the early 1970s. Other singing teachers...
Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment
Since 2005, a group of activists have annually reenacted the lynching of Roger and Dorothy Malcom and George and Mae Murray Dorsey, murdered on Moore’s Ford Bridge in Monroe, Georgia, on...
"It's Being Black and Poor": Race, Class, and Desegregation at Pebblebrook High
...desegregation.5Crenshaw, 376. Pre-Brown Map showing the location of Mableton, Georgia, 2012. Virginia Ward's people were "Indians from Black Hawk Hill," and they had owned property in Mableton for many years....