Contesting the Roadways: The Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment and a Confederate Flag Rally, July 25, 2015
...and Rockdale counties. Both events started at 10:00 am, and began and ended at sites in Monroe about a mile away from each other. What might these parallel events tell...
Flatlands in the Outlands: Photographs from the Delta and Bayou
...grandfather. Mt. Tinna Missionary Baptist Church, Scott, Mississippi, photograph by Tom Rankin © 1990. See more at the Jennifer Schwartz Gallery. Mt. Tinna Missionary Baptist Church, Scott, Mississippi, photograph by Tom Rankin...
The Civil Rights Archive
Video Part 2: Dr. Patton explains the layout of Trenholm State's Civil Rights Archive and addresses obstacles she encountered...
From A Field Guide to Etowah County
...jays, when the grand jury broke and let the suspect go. The facts are simple, my grandfather said, the D.A. said we couldn't make a case, so the words they...
A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave
...missteps. Having such a recognizable star come in and play a kind of angel figure distracts us from both the miracle of Northup's staying alive and the power of Ejiofor's...
New Histories of Environmental Activism: A Review of Rethinking the American Environmental Movement
...neighborhood cleanup, rats, empty lots, and community health. Spears examines urban activism by African American and other minority populations in more detail later, but by putting this section right before...
The Tulip Quilt [ca 1880]
...in quilts prior to the era. Chrome orange, a mineral dye, was frequently used as an accent in red and green quilts in the mid-nineteenth century. Construction: Mary's quilt is...
Mississippi Delta
...in the eastern floodplain of the lower Mississippi River. It is sixty miles at its widest point from the Yazoo to the Mississippi, in what poet William Alexander Percy called "a badly...
"We're Almost There": The Drive-By Truckers' Art of Place
Review "I don't need a map to tell me where I am today." —Mike Cooley The Drive-By Truckers have always done their best and most arresting work about place. They...
Hillside Refuge: Tornado Shelters in Northeast Mississippi
...you might miss them entirely. I went out within a thirty-mile radius of my home in Water Valley to photograph them. Driving down a long Mississippi road one day, I...