Seneca Quarry
...Identifier is 3025595, MLR Number A1 18. The most remarkable part of the 1823 payroll is the annotation by Frank and Martin (see image, lines 31 and 32). Whoever signed for...
North Carolina: A State of Shock
...2013, http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2013/08/12/4232398/gov-mccrory-signs-voter-id-bill.html. "There is no moral issue. It is wrong—deadly wrong—to deny any of your fellow Americans the right to vote in this country," Lyndon Johnson said to members of...
Shades of Violence: Jim Crow Justice and Black Resistance in the Depression-Era South
...Crow as irredeemably violent and repressive. The ILD fought legal lynchings in the courts; its supporters—numbering several thousand in Alabama alone by the early 1930s—argued that the real fight was...
Unhappy Trails in the Big Easy: Public Spaces and a Square Called Congo
...Conceived in bribery and swaddled in corruption, Audubon Park followed an even rockier passage into sylvan existence. There was its inception in a land-jobbing scheme by two northern speculators during...
Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism
...is read. Thus, while the passing narrative is common in African American literature, Alexander's innovation here is to emphasize its spatial dimensions. As the poet noted in a 2010 Southern Spaces interview,...
Voting Rights, the Supreme Court, and the Persistence of Southern History
...I don't think that's attributable to the fact that it is so much clearer now that we need this [Act]. I think it is attributable, very likely attributable, to a...
Mourning Medgar: Justice, Aesthetics, and the Local
...excerpt) Part 5: Contrasts Walker’s location in a black neighborhood in Jackson with Welty’s location in a white neighborhood 3.6 miles away Part 6: Gwin locates Anne Moody’s work within the...
Category 3 Gentrification: On New Orleans's Population Trends and the Hostility of Internet Commenters
...personal experience of the writer, the appeal to insider knowledge, the individual interpretation—however well-meaning and progressive—is yet another gentrifying move, one that is both precious and consumptive, sentimental and displacing....
Family Forestry in Twiggs County, Georgia / Live in Macon at the Douglass Theatre
...and keyboardist Ian Stewart, the original "sixth" Rolling Stone, in 1982 Leavell was invited to assume a significant keyboardist/vocalist role for the Stones. "Chuck is our direct link to Stu,"...
The Bulletin—March 20, 2013
...that numerically impacted the weight of individual votes in one Irving district, the case highlights ambiguity in the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965 that outlawed discriminatory voting practices, but...