Contesting the Roadways: The Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment and a Confederate Flag Rally, July 25, 2015
...Real witnessing can only occur by human beings, joined in a united group, responsible to one another, just as the united Apostles (constituting the first church) were able to transmit...
The Place of Appalachia
...recognized this reality. Rick Simon, for example, employing a Marxist framework, asserted that Appalachia represented a spatialized manifestation of class exploitation.1Richard M. Simon, "Regions and Social Relations: A Research Note,"...
Shaping a Southern Soundscape
...sonic qualities and mostly invented "folk" histories. Instead, musicians shared a broad, interracial musical culture and the tastes of southern working class and middle-class, black and white listeners overlapped. All...
Whiskey and Geography
...their fellow citizens, distilled whiskey became the indispensable and ubiquitous American drink. Even with other regions joining in the business of distilling, frontier whiskey continued to hold a good reputation...
Hillside Refuge: Tornado Shelters in Northeast Mississippi
...Oklahoma twisters. While the United States experiences more tornadoes than anywhere else on earth, these storms also occur further south of the infamous Tornado Alley. Parts of Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama,...
Public School Politics: A Review of The End of Consensus
...district—would ultimately fade as public officials, business leaders, and area residents "generally supported the board's policies" and approved the schools' performance through the 1980s and into 1990s (22). However, as...
Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...the extent of the various laws that cover petrochemical operations, showing the overlaps and gaps amid which companies do business. Including the human dimensions of the systems Petrochemical America visualizes...
"Looking Back and Moving Forward": The Records of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference at Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library
...United States. In a letter to SCLC’s membership, Lowery described Winn-Dixie’s business in South Africa as an insult to the grocery chain’s African American customer base and condemned what he...
When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras
...reinforced many of the lessons provided during my extracurricular activities. Classes and conversations with Professors Sonia Sanchez, Bettye Collier Thomas, Greg Carr, Valethia Watkins, and Mario Beatty, among others, strengthened...
The "Achilles' Heel" of Jim Crow: A Review of Landscapes of Exclusion
...White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2005). Top, Jones Lake State Park, Bladen County, North Carolina, ca. 1940. Photograph by unknown...