North Carolina: A State of Shock
..."Senate Budget Is Wrong Path for North Carolina: Plan Includes Tax Cuts for the Wealthy, Shorts Investments in Vital Services," BTC Reports 19, no. 3 (May 2013), http://itep.org/reports_using_itep_data/2013/06/north-carolina-budget-tax-center-gambling-away-our-future.php; Patrick Gannon,...
Resegregated Spaces: The Schools-to-Prisons Pipeline
...and from 1964 to 1975, worked as a field representative for the American Friends Service Committee on issues of voter registration, school desegregation, and economic development in the US South....
African Americans in Atlanta: Adrienne Herndon, an Uncommon Woman
...January 25, 1904). Many African American women who pursued careers in teaching earned respect and status for providing a critical service to a community in dire need. And working wives...
African Americans in Atlanta: Community Building in a New South City
...income. These were the businessmen, educators, clergy, and other professionals, who ironically served the old racial order. Following Emancipation and before Jim Crow's entrenchment, the services that slaves had performed...
The Future of Slavery's Historical Spaces
Essay At historical plantation sites, where the subject of slavery is difficult to avoid, Park Service interpreters struggle to present the subject in the least offensive manner. Interpreters at Arlington...
Residues of Border Control
...History Society, the National Park Service, the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, as well as corporate actors in charge of the architecture, oral history recollection, and the catering and gift...
How I Shed My Skin
...the premise" (79). Though Grimsley remembers hearing these jokes in many places—"at a country store or a service station, places where men talked to other men" (79)—he recalls local churches...
Queer Memory: Loss, Martyrs, and Memorialization in Southern Florida
...service stations float in the road's middle, serving as places of respite along the 264-mile expanse. It is as though you are riding the currents at a controlled seventy miles...
Segregation's Habits and Horrors: The Photographs of O. N. Pruitt
...and other Kodaks. Many of these photographers owned their own studios or made photographs for local publications and other purposes. Their portraits and photographs of street scenes, church services, rural...
Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance
...earlier cemetery grounds to create Rock Creek Parkway and an adjacent horse riding trail. The grounds are now under the authority of the National Park Service. Site map of Female...