"Looking Back and Moving Forward": The Records of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference at Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library
...a life and a purpose beyond completing the projects already begun by Martin.11Abernathy, 575. Abernathy continued to focus the organization’s efforts on the plight of the poor throughout the 1970s....
The Vanished World of the New Orleans Longshoreman
...ship's deck, did not enter service until 1998. Although the net value of shipping continued to increase during this period due to trade in grain and petroleum, the number of...
Three Black Towns: An Excerpt from Black Landscapes Matter
...and landscape architect based in San Antonio, Texas, partnered with Eatonville to generate community development guidelines drawing inspiration from Hurston's literary descriptions of the community's character. Furthermore, Fly partnered with...
Haiti and the Fear of Insurrection: A Review of The Slaveholding Crisis
...horrors of a San Domingo servile insurrection, consigning her citizens to assassinations and her wives and daughters to pollution and violation to satisfy the lust of half-civilized Africans."1Charles B. Dew,...
Putting the Hospital into Southern Hospitality
...sanctioned way of life. But the same enslaved Africans who introduced rice culture brought with them a virulent strain of falciparum malaria, and as they cleared swamps for expanded rice...
The X-Codes: A Post-Katrina Postscript
...numbers and letters in each quadrant of the X, recorded coded information. Later, as I recalled my odyssey through drowned areas of the city, I kept returning to that visual...
Public School Politics: A Review of The End of Consensus
...October 27, 2007. Photograph by Flickr user psychdelicfivecats. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Bottom, North Carolina school bus. Photograph by Flickr user Dale Moore. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND...
Hyphenating Waters: A Review of Calypso Magnolia and Island People
...1, 54–80. Spatially, writes Lowe, the circumCaribbean "embraces the coastal Gulf and the Caribbean, as well as the islands that dot the seas and the western Atlantic" (xi). Lowe moves...
The Tulip Quilt [ca 1880]
...the Spartanburg Herald on May 19, 1875, offered "Singer's celebrated sewing machines, the cheapest and the best sewing machine, for sale on easy terms." In the same issue, McK. Johnstone...
"Aint that Something?"
...© Robert Gipe, 2015. Originally published in Trampoline (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2015), 1, 58. This material is used by permission of Ohio University Press, www.ohioswallow.com. "I had had my...