"Looking Back and Moving Forward": The Records of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference at Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library
...Freedom Movement (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003). For years, the women of SCLC were relegated to stereotypically “female” positions within the organization, serving mainly as secretaries and...
When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras
...Joseph AME Church. Shortly after the rally, 1,500 African Americans headed to Howard Johnson's to continue their protests. These protests persisted throughout the summer as part of the "Freedom Highways"...
African Americans in Atlanta: Community Building in a New South City
...the shining example of Henry Grady's New South ideology — seeking industrialization through northern capital and promising racial justice through segregation. But in spite of the city's aggressive promotion of...
States' Rights Resurgent: The Attack on the Voting Rights Act
...territory or adopting a new state, which had to be declared "free" or "slave." Calhoun held that any state had the sovereign power to nullify any law that the federal...
Envisioning Faulkner and Southern Literature
...which contains only one mixed-blood character, the significantly named Dilsey, avoids issues of race while promoting regeneration through capitalism. Known for its sentences of over eighty lines in search of...
Joshua McCarter Simpson's "To the White People of America" (1854)
...Photograph by unknown creator. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Image is in the public domain. A freeborn Black abolitionist from Ohio, Joshua McCarter Simpson opened his 1854 indictment of the hypocrisy...
Seeing Sound: Mapping Florentine Soundscapes
Presentation Question and Answer Session About the Speaker Niall Atkinson is Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Art History and the College at the University of Chicago. His publications include The Noisy...
Landscapes and Ecologies of the US South: Essays in Eco-Cultural History
...one without respectable precedent."3Barbara J. Fields, "Commentary on Jack Temple Kirby's paper 'Bioregionalism: Landscape and culture in the South Atlantic,'" in The New Regionalism: Essays and Commentaries, ed. Robert L....
Bioregional Approach to Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta
...floodplain hydrological system have transformed the landscape, originally dominated by mature bottomland hardwood forest, beyond recognition and resulted in irrevocable alteration of local ecology. The long-term environmental history of the...
The Chesapeake Bay
...they considered the land to be "improved" when it had been cleared for cultivation. English visions of the landscape included the introduction of domestic livestock, the first beasts larger than...