African American Community Building in Atlanta: A Guide to the Study of Race in America
...pain and guilt of racial conflict has made race a virtually taboo topic of discussion and an elusive subject of study. The constantly changing racial references are telling examples of...
Preserving the Memory of Ybor City, Florida
...Project of the Federal Writers' Project. While the Federal Writers' Project produced a wide variety of materials, this American Memory collection focuses on materials "meant to reflect the ordinary person's...
Finding Media
...few favorite sites and search strategies for finding useable media: Public Domain and US Government works: The term "public domain" can be a little tricky—there are a number of caveats...
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...
An Upcountry Legacy: Mary Black's Family Quilts
...Carolina to conduct a survey of quilts owned in selected counties. This project resulted in a traveling exhibition and the book, Social Fabric: South Carolina's Traditional Quilts. In 1999, Horton...
I-26, Corridor of Change
...the coming of I-26 might evoke through the framing, detail, and texture of photography. The result was not a pro- or anti-development project, but one that voiced a range of...
Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron
...of appalling injustice that has lasted to the present day." Securing a conviction rather than justice consumed the local police, which quickly identified young Gary Tyler as their suspect. Within...
Dancing Around the "Glaring Light of Television": Black Teen Dance Shows in the South
...by recruiting contemporary Washington teenagers, teaching them the locally distinct "hand dance" of the era, and having them reenact the dances. "We had eight weeks to get these kids taught,"...
Voting Rights and Southern Legislatures Post-Shelby County v. Holder
...section five of the Voting Rights Act (VRA). For example, The US District Court for the District of Columbia denied preclearance to a redistricting plan and voter ID law passed...
When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras
...out, Durham's white power brokers were more concerned with racial harmony than with racial justice. The conflict between the city's racial moderates and more direct action-oriented civil rights organizers reached...