Mississippi Delta
...labor shortage that promoted the consolidation of farm lands, diversification of crops beyond cotton, and the mechanization of plantations. Beginning with the Dixiecrat movement of the 1948 presidential campaign, the...
"Looking Back and Moving Forward": The Records of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference at Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library
...[I]t was my impression from observing him, things that I heard and also from his general . . . policy with respect to his organization that Dr. King either had...
Taming Southern Waters: Christopher J. Manganiello’s Southern Water, Southern Power
...management of floods and droughts to include the protection of recreational opportunities provided by free-flowing streams. Manganiello makes a compelling argument that water resource development in the Savannah River basin...
Segregation's Habits and Horrors: The Photographs of O. N. Pruitt
...purposes and created what bell hooks has called "a counterhegemonic world of images" that rebutted the racist caricatures found in popular culture and in the work of some white photographers.3bell...
Preserving the Memory of Ybor City, Florida
...PA 4970. It is estimated that by the time of its closing the Burgert Brothers studio had produced as many as 80,000 negatives that documented diverse aspects of life in...
Joshua McCarter Simpson's "To the White People of America" (1854)
...man sway his sceptre, In one hand he holds the rod— In the other hand the Scripture, And says that he's a man of God. Hear ye that mourning? 'Tis...
When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras
...tradition but also ensured that gospel remained embedded in African American culture. That embeddedness has surfaced in a variety of cultural contexts and arenas and continues to do so: BET's...
Catfish Dream: An African American Vision in the Delta
...said. "Well, what the hell you going to do with your fish, eat 'em?!" "Something like that," Scott told the man. "I'm down here now seeing what you're doing. I'm...
An Unflinching Look: An Interview with Photographer Benjamin Dimmitt
...That is what I do. I just happen to like to photograph in wetlands because that’s my native environment. That's my native landscape. I grew up in Clearwater on the...
Selma Bridge: Always Under Construction
...veterans' "Moses generation." "We've got to remember now that Joshua still has a job to do," he said. "There are still battles that need to be fought; some rivers that...