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...
Reverend Will D. Campbell, Southern Racial Reconciler
...indelible mark as a minister and social activist in service to marginalized people of every race, creed, and calling," Carter said. "He used the force of his words and the...
The Same Language: A Memoir by Ben Duncan
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Elegy for the Native Guards
...intone. Only the fort remains, near forty feet high round, unfinished, half-open to the sky, the elements—wind, rain—God's deliberate eye. Map National Park Service Gulf Islands Regional Map Cover Image...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Two
...comprehend the horrendous injustice of slavery, the kidnapping of millions of people from Africa, the stealing of their lives from them, and then the theft of their labor for hundreds...
Counterblast: How the Atlanta Temple Bombing Strengthened the Civil Rights Cause
...Jews. Since the colonial era, Jews and Gentiles had lived in relatively peaceful coexistence in the South. Latent prejudice toward Jews nonetheless surfaced in times of social and economic upheaval,...
"When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?"
...the anger; see what actions we must take in our own lives, where we live every day, to bring about social justice. In welcoming her tonight, I dare to borrow...
Rethinking the Geography of Lynching
...was "less deep" but because conditions differed so greatly between the sections" (101). Lynching Beyond Dixie also has the laudable effect of bringing otherwise forgotten lives back into the historical narrative....
Wherein the South Differs from the North: Naming Persons, Naming Places, and the Need for Visionary Geographies
...has Toklas say) she grew up. Then to Cambridge, Massachusetts, for college, to Baltimore for medical school, then back to the Paris where she had lived with her family as...
Love and Death at Second-Line
...resort to an ultimate solution, the disrespect for life, the ruination of both mens' lives, the danger to family and friends. Jazz Funeral for Anthony "Tuba Fats" Lacen The day...