Shades of Violence: Jim Crow Justice and Black Resistance in the Depression-Era South
...Alabama has provided the setting for a number of influential studies on race, labor, and radicalism in the Jim Crow South. Yet in shifting attention from Scottsboro's sleepy courthouse square...
Unhappy Trails in the Big Easy: Public Spaces and a Square Called Congo
...razed and an untold number of residents displaced in the name of progress. Nor is its future unclouded. Evening on Bayou St. John, New Orleans, between 1900 and 1906. Library...
Just a number, Old Bryce Hospital Cemetery, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 2007
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...
An Upcountry Legacy: Mary Black's Family Quilts
...devoted to ensuring that the names and relations of the makers would be remembered. The number of quilts and the care with which they were labeled suggests that she thought...
Three Black Towns: An Excerpt from Black Landscapes Matter
...the land was dubbed Freedom Hill. Twenty years later, a Black community elder named Turner Prince purchased the land, and it was renamed Princeville, the first incorporated Black town in...
The Law and the Mississippi Basin: A Review of Mississippi River Tragedies
...1993, and 2011—and in 2005, Hurricane Katrina—have demonstrated, the potential for serious flooding still exists despite the remaking of the Mississippi's hydrological system at an enormous economic and environmental cost....
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...
Interstate Road Project, Single-State History: Tammy Ingram's Look at the Dixie Highway
...towns to Miami Beach and back. Dixie Highway foregrounds the political challenges in conceiving and creating an integrated, cross-country road in an era when the United States lacked a coordinated...
Louisiana: Crossroads of the Atlantic World
...to define that uniqueness as the result of the interaction between local particularity and a wider web of connections" (3). Louisiana, with its location in the geographic center of the...