A Green Democratic Revolution
...high-wage jobs and ensure prosperity and economic security for all people of the United States. To invest in the infrastructure and industry of the United States to sustainably meet the...
A Woman's Work: Jim Crow Modernity and the Remaking of the Carceral State
...Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, loc.gov/resource/cph.3b47842. Equally impressive was the intellectual work of Mary Church Terrell, who in 1907 published "Peonage in the United States: The Convict Lease System and...
Buffalo Mountain Windfarm, Anderson County, Tennessee, 2005
...eighteen turbines and generates a total capacity of twenty-nine megawatts, which is enough to provide power to about 3,800 homes. It is the only windfarm in the southeast United States....
Struggle Against Disease and Discrimination: The Jesse Peel Papers
...representing a cure for AIDS. The sculpture intended to memorialize those affected by the HIV/AIDS pandemic that led to 573,800 reported AIDS cases in the United States between 1981 and...
The Tulip Quilt [ca 1880]
...quiltmakers in other parts of the country favored printed fabrics at this time, solid colors were more common in inland parts of the southern states. The particular shades of red...
Voting Rights and Southern Legislatures Post-Shelby County v. Holder
Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., June 7, 2009. Photograph by Mark Fischer. Courtesy of Mark Fischer. As our bulletins have previously reported, legislatures in a number of southern states...
Still under the Influence: The Bioregional Origins of the Hub City Writers Project
...hundred $100 fine print hardbacks of the book, unavailable for retail. When the paperback came out in April of 1997, we sold 800 copies the first day at a book...
Brown, Black, and White in Texas
Review "Let the Negro fight his own battles," declared Felix Tijerina, a Mexican American civil rights activist in Texas and the national president of the League of United Latin American...
Congregation
...yards; its streets named for states and presidents—each corner a crossroads of memory, marked with a white obelisk; its phalanx of church houses— a congregation of bunkers and masonry brick,...
Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans
...count on one hand the number of writers given high administrative responsibility. Saxon was one of them, and maybe the most highly regarded of the lot. On several occasions Washington...