The Other Side of Paradise: Glimpsing Slavery in the University's Utopian Landscapes
...lips as she passed away. Several years later, it is said in numerous white authored accounts, Kitty herself died in a pious Christian manner, declaring on her deathbed, "I will...
African American Community Building in Atlanta: A Guide to the Study of Race in America
...is part of such an effort. It seeks to clarify terms, narrate critical developments, define issues, and identify relevant sources of information.The focus of this research guide is the African...
Preserving the Memory of Ybor City, Florida
...and even during the Great Depression in the 1930s, but Jean's interest in photography waned. Sometime in the early 1940s he sold his interest in the company to his brother...
Finding Media
...1923, like this image from Lewis Hine, is in the public domain. Fortunately for us, work produced by the US government is also in the public domain. This satellite image...
The X-Codes: A Post-Katrina Postscript
...in New Orleans. It was my first trip into the city after Hurricane Katrina in August 2005 and I had been touring a friend around landscapes and cityscapes that I...
An Upcountry Legacy: Mary Black's Family Quilts
Introduction About the Author Laurel Horton is a folklorist and quilt researcher. A native of Kentucky, she earned a B.A. in English and an M.S. in Library Science from the...
I-26, Corridor of Change
...my motivation. Why was I here? What right did I have to assume that I could represent in my documentary work a culture I knew little about? I was sometimes...
Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron
...political imagination. His insistence on detailing social injustices never precluded him from illuminating the South's importance as the incubator of his radical political vision. Scott-Heron's indebtedness to the South and...
Dancing Around the "Glaring Light of Television": Black Teen Dance Shows in the South
...dance show, I think it was on channel 12, but one of the reasons I remember it is because I watched it. And I remember that there was a dance...
Voting Rights and Southern Legislatures Post-Shelby County v. Holder
...key barrier to its implementation has been removed. Virginia's pending voter ID law now is also free of preclearance requirements and will likely be implemented as well. Mississippi's voter ID law—put...