The "Achilles' Heel" of Jim Crow: A Review of Landscapes of Exclusion
...increased use of formerly segregated sites led whites to abandon public spaces in favor of private facilities. States and cities steadily withdrew support for public parks and recreation.2Kevin M. Kruse,...
Low Country Travelers: An African American Car Club of Charleston County, South Carolina
...interest and decided to buy a car to restore. His original impulse was “to promote unity of the brothers.” Ancrum asked two men from each area of the county to...
Opening Remarks: 2014 Callaloo Conference
...addressed. I say "partially" because at our first meeting we attempted to answer the following questions: What do we do? How do we do it? Why do we do it?...
Driving Through Time: The Digital Blue Ridge Parkway
...to complete because of environmental and public relations concerns and lawsuits filed by the mountain's owner and promoter, Hugh Morton. Screen capture of the GeoBrowse tool, Driving Through Time, 2012. The...
"Looking Back and Moving Forward": The Records of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference at Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library
...the organization’s archive is available at MARBL.3This article makes use of some material originally published in the Robert W. Woodruff Library Blog.[http://web.library.emory.edu/blog/tag/tags/southern-christian-leadership-conference-records] Comprising 918 boxes of administrative documents, photographs, printed...
Ireland’s First Sacred Harp Convention: “To Meet To Part No More”
...with family tradition or geographical history. Devotees sing Sacred Harp because they enjoy the music, food, and fellowship; because they find spiritual or religious meaning in the music and the...
Race
...look from an ivory spouse who is learning her husband's caesuras. She can see silent spaces but not what they signify, graphite markings in a forester's code. Many others have...
The State House Aflame 1833
...different. It's twelve noon, and the assembly's just adjourned; the State House is aflame, and water won't reach the heights a slave can. Sam's a bondsman. The roof, the roof,...
Joseph Crespino Interviews Thomas Mullen, Author of Darktown
...that informed his fiction, the history that underlies Darktown, and the uses of history and fiction in understanding place and time. Interview About the Interviewer Joseph Crespino is Jimmy Carter Professor of...
Bioregional Approach to Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta
...American use of the bottomland hardwood forest presumably did not endanger the natural variety of the land or its capacity for self-renewal. Much of the Native American use of timber...