Still Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease
...monthly payments can mean the difference between destitution and modest survival.4This estimate of the number of black lung beneficiaries is extrapolated from data on the number of claims filed each...
The Civil War and Emancipation 150 Years On
...for a more honest accounting of the events that defined the US South for generations. No matter how much organizers strive to acknowledge the profound human costs and stakes in...
Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment
...left on Tyler Street Church is on your left (look for Church’s Chicken on the right). Coming I-20 West: Exit at Monroe Monticello Exit 98. Turn right. Stay on Highway...
Congregation
...table and chairs etched with rust, the dresser laced with mold. Four years gone she's still rebuilding the shed out back and sorting through boxes in the kitchen- a lifetime...
Lift Every Voice and Sing: The Quilts of Gwendolyn Ann Magee
...rights movement, careers in social work and business, and her experiences as a wife, mother, and grandmother. A native of High Point, North Carolina, Magee lived most of her adult...
Collaborative Atlanta Studies Website Gathers Original Scholarship, Research, and Projects on Atlanta
...past, present, and future can take place among collaborating institutions and organizations." Atlanta Studies is not just for those in the academic arena, but for members of the public as...
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....
Georgia Slavery, Georgia Freedom
...Georgia wished to create an environment conducive to the social-mobility of status-seeking, white Englishmen. By 1751, however, this stance eroded under market pressures and the desire of vocal South Carolinian...
Social Justice Environmentalism
...marginalized groups include not only land struggles by formerly enslaved people and by Native Americans, but also agricultural movements and the class-based mobilizations of populist agrarians. Chicano farmworker fights against...
Buffalo Mountain Windfarm, Anderson County, Tennessee, 2005
Janet Powell, Buffalo Mountain Windfarm, Anderson County, Tennessee, 2005. Located north of Oak Ridge and about thirty miles northwest of Knoxville, Buffalo Mountain Windfarm was built in the 2000s as...