Voting Rights, the Supreme Court, and the Persistence of Southern History
...and privileges of all persons born or naturalized in the United States; due process and equal protection of the laws; House apportionment based on "the whole number of persons;" and...
Latinos, the American South, and the Future of US Race Relations
...estimated in April 2006 that "there must be 10,000 to 20,000 immigrant workers in the region by now, and the number is going to grow."3Sam Quinones, "Migrants Find a Gold...
Battle of Atlanta Project Discussion and Exhibit Set for July 17 at Emory's Woodruff Library
...Thursday, July 17, at 6:30 p.m. in the Joseph W. Jones Room. Developed by the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship (ECDS), the smartphone-friendly tour provides GPS directions and mapping, historical...
A Green Democratic Revolution
...by the economic and administrative power apparatus."1André Gorz, Ecologica (Paris: Galilée, 2008), 48. A turning point was reached fifty years ago. In 1972, the Club of Rome published the report...
The Vanished World of the New Orleans Longshoreman
...new technology and implemented sweeping infrastructure improvements, the Port of New Orleans, hobbled by a dock board populated by political appointees who possessed no useful knowledge of the shipping industry,...
Brown, Black, and White in Texas
...rights struggles occurred simultaneously. Despite repeated calls for cooperation and a number of examples of interethnic alliances, African Americans and Mexican Americans ultimately 'fought their own battles'" (2). Behnken examines...
The Black Belt
...Henry Wellge & Co. Courtesy of the Library of Congress Geography and Map Division, https://www.loc.gov/resource/g3974s.pm000090/ Through violence, appeals to white supremacy, and massive voter fraud, the Black Belt's oligarchs defeated...
Unquiet Emmett Till
...a western one), but sometimes, more appropriately, as a category of its own. Mace's sectional differences are significant, but perhaps overblown. After all, few newspapers sent reporters to Mississippi. Most...
Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment
...Take Highway 11 North all the way to Monroe. (Follow the instructions as outlined above.) Note: If you pass Church’s Chicken you have gone too far. Church Telephone Number 770-267-5819...
Collaborative Atlanta Studies Website Gathers Original Scholarship, Research, and Projects on Atlanta
...using ECDS's forthcoming Digital Atlanta Geocoder mapping system – will appear on a regular basis, Hatfield says. "We're always looking for new and interesting voices, and we're really excited about...