"The Choctaw Miracle": A Review of Katherine Osburn's Choctaw Resurgence in Mississippi
...extract themselves from the heavy hand of BIA officials. By wisely investing federal funds, they launched the "Choctaw Miracle." Today, the Mississippi Choctaws are among the most successful of Indian...
A Turning Point for Richmond: The Virginia Historical Society's Civil War Exhibition
...in the Heart of America, 1859-1863 (New York: W. W. Norton, 2003). Today, Richmond appears to be revising these views and heading toward a more realistic, and complete, history of...
Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
...were two prominent Lower Chattahoochee blues radio stations from the 1950s through the 1970s. Today, WOKS AM 1340 is the only radio station in the city with daily blues programming....
James Holland, Riverkeeper: Environmental Protection along the Altamaha
...waiting until I could get to work," he said. "You're crabbing today?" "Yep," he said. "Heading out now. But listen, I have a favor. I just talked to my first...
"Out Yonder on the Road": Working Class Self-Representation and the 1939 Roadside Demonstration in Southeast Missouri
Introduction In the early morning hours of January 10, 1939, more than fifteen hundred men, women and children piled their meager belongings along US Highways 60 and 61 in the...
Crisis of the New Majority: Low-Income Students in the South's Public Schools
...states as the US South: Louisiana, Mississippi, Florida, Texas, Oklahoma, Alabama, Arkansas, Tennessee, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, West Virginia, Kentucky, Virginia, Maryland. Today the South is the only section...
Atlanta's Charis Books and More: Histories of a Feminist Space
...Look and Angela Gabriel. However, today the neighborhood is far different. Due to massive gentrification of the surrounding residential areas, Little Five Points has become a quirky, yet innocuous, tourist...
Shreveport, Louisiana images
Shreveport, Louisiana: Landscaping, El Dorado Casino Resort Today, the downtown and waterfront areas, bustle with tourist, most of whom gamble at one of several riverboat casinos. Artist's Rendering of RiverView...
Carolina's Caribbean Origins: A Review of Hubs of Empire
...Wilmington remains, even today, quite different from the adjacent piedmont. Slaves of the Rebel General Thomas F. Drayton, Hilton Head, South Carolina, 1862. Photograph by Henry P. Moore. Courtesy of...
Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville
Introduction At high noon, Nashville time, on Monday, May 17, 1954, all nine justices of the United States Supreme Court in Washington joined in a declaration that legally-sanctioned racial segregation...