Contesting the Roadways: The Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment and a Confederate Flag Rally, July 25, 2015
...flag display coincided with growing white southern resistance to Truman's civil rights proposals. The flag was widely used in the 1948 National States Rights Democratic Party, the "Dixiecrats," although it...
An Unflinching Look: An Interview with Photographer Benjamin Dimmitt
...freshwater, merged right out into the Gulf. Bransford: In broad brushstrokes, can you describe what the Refuge looks like? Dimmitt: There were ferns and bromeliads everywhere. The humidity was 100%...
Love and Death in Mississippi
...decision we make, good or bad, and necessarily bring shame upon us again when we inevitably fail to do the right thing. Sometimes I think that on the national stage,...
Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy
...summer to autumn. Tree limbs refuse to stand upright, but bend inward from left and right, curving into an asymmetrical spiral of light, shadow, and texture. There is some semblance...
Tuskegee Airmen: Brett Gadsden Interviews J. Todd Moye
...Photograph of several Tuskegee airmen attending a briefing (top center), Tuskegee airmen playing cards in the officers' club in the evening (top right), Members of the 332nd Fighter Group (bottom...
Plantation Romances and Slave Narratives: Symbiotic Genres
.... . that considering numbers, nature and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation, is among possible events . . . The Almighty...
Changing Places, Changing Lives
...hire were one-time deals: interstate transactions did not preclude local sales, and slaves might be hired out one season and sold across state lines the next. Moreover, for many enslaved...
Georgia Slavery, Georgia Freedom
Review From colonial founders' initial resistance to slavery to antebellum whites' embrace of it, Watson W. Jennison's Cultivating Race charts the first hundred years of Georgia's Anglo, African, and Native American...
Reckoning with Enslavement
...to develop a morally strong case for making profits out of right motives." See Murphy, Jesuit Slaveholding in Maryland, 1717–1838 (New York: Routledge, 2001), 72. But America's founding, like Georgetown...
A Woman's Work: Jim Crow Modernity and the Remaking of the Carceral State
...Georgia's prisons, Georgia, November 3, 1940. Copyright Atlanta-Journal Constitution. Courtesy of Georgia State University Library, Photographic Collection, Special Collections and Archives, Atlanta Journal-Constitution Photographic Archives, digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ajc/id/611/rec/53. Turning to the brutality...