Shades of Violence: Jim Crow Justice and Black Resistance in the Depression-Era South
...Alabama has provided the setting for a number of influential studies on race, labor, and radicalism in the Jim Crow South. Yet in shifting attention from Scottsboro's sleepy courthouse square...
Residues of Border Control
...through its openings and the residues of crossing and policing it disrupts the narrative of security that justifies an unending fencing. The fortification of the border is predicated on the...
Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
...Album, 1–2. In 1825, with the signing of the infamous Treaty of Indian Springs between the United States and the Creek Nation, the way was opened for the forced final...
Fort Scott newspapers
...drunken desperado, who was and had been endangering the life of any one he came in contact with. When the testimony is given under oath in the preliminary examination, this...
Envisioning Faulkner and Southern Literature
...New Mexico, in its locations), Toomer openly acknowledged that he had journeyed south in the 1920s to be closer to the "sources" of his art. Figure 1. Cleo Campbell, nine...
Call for Proposals for the Second Annual Atlanta Studies Symposium
...open conversation. Please include audio-video requirements in your proposal. Send your proposals via email to ecds@emory.edu by 5:00 p.m. on January 17, 2014. Contact Stewart Varner (stewart.varner@emory.edu) with any questions....
A Conversation with Digital Historians
...so I walked into his office one day and asked if he had any job openings for the summer. Ken hired me as an editorial assistant. I found that I...
When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras
...number of African Americans migrating to the South exceeded the number of those leaving the region. Especially for returning and primary migrants frustrated by the declining economic opportunities available in...
Interstate Road Project, Single-State History: Tammy Ingram's Look at the Dixie Highway
...of the planning, construction, and maintenance challenges of twentieth century highway network development. Ingram opens with a discussion of the nation's chaotic transportation system at the dawn of the twentieth...
The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi
...it begins with composer Joel Pickard's opening number: acoustic guitar with cello underneath when the camera pans over family photo albums and helps viewers understand the chronology they're about to...