Voting Rights, the Supreme Court, and the Persistence of Southern History
...http://www2.bloomberglaw.com/public/desktop/document/Northwest_Austin_Mun_Utility_Dist_No_One_v_Holder_129_S_Ct_2504_1. Like opponents to Section 5, Roberts cited increases in black and Hispanic voter registration and in the number of elected officials as evidence of how much the South has...
Queer Memory: Loss, Martyrs, and Memorialization in Southern Florida
..."I'm your lady and you are my man." Slippery, you think, the categories in which we place others and ourselves. You know the popular narrative of Key West—its open philosophy...
Residues of Border Control
...through its openings and the residues of crossing and policing it disrupts the narrative of security that justifies an unending fencing. The fortification of the border is predicated on the...
An Excerpt from The Lesbian South: Southern Feminists, the Women in Print Movement, and the Queer Literary Canon
...and San Francisco, where their visibility and numbers result in political clout and political influence. Greenwich Village in New York and the Castro in San Francisco were two models; pioneer...
Counterblast: How the Atlanta Temple Bombing Strengthened the Civil Rights Cause
...Brickner, October 12, 1961, box 5, folder 8, Rothschild Papers, 1933–1985, Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University, Atlanta. Rothschild was active in a number of liberal organizations, including...
Interstate Road Project, Single-State History: Tammy Ingram's Look at the Dixie Highway
...of the planning, construction, and maintenance challenges of twentieth century highway network development. Ingram opens with a discussion of the nation's chaotic transportation system at the dawn of the twentieth...
A Conversation with Digital Historians
...so I walked into his office one day and asked if he had any job openings for the summer. Ken hired me as an editorial assistant. I found that I...
When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras
...number of African Americans migrating to the South exceeded the number of those leaving the region. Especially for returning and primary migrants frustrated by the declining economic opportunities available in...
Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance
...enraging abolitionists during the same year the Republican Party was founded. Nannie was seven when open mass violent conflict erupted in Kansas. In the month of her death, the US...
Catfish Dream: An African American Vision in the Delta
...Their bodies were bullion. There were others of them, wild ones, who lived in the open waters of the river to the west. They sometimes got caught on the trotlines...