"Rights Still Being Righted": Scottsboro Eighty Years Later
...promoting equity. Dan T. Carter, who wrote Scottsboro: A Tragedy of the American South, the definitive account of the trials, sounded a similar theme in his keynote address, urging those...
A Green Democratic Revolution
...challenges of the twenty-first century. To secure clean air and water, climate and community resilience, healthy food, access to nature, and a sustainable environment for all. To promote justice and...
An Oyster by Any Other Name
...A Mess of Greens: Southern Gender and Southern Food (Fall 2011). Engelhardt is also co-editing (with John T. Edge and Ted Ownby) a forthcoming volume about southern food methodologies. Originally...
Brick by Brick: Atlanta’s Collier Heights
...developed, financed, designed, and constructed by African Americans for African American residents.2See Betsy Riley, "Collier Heights awarded Local Historic district status," Atlanta Magazine, May 16, 2013, http://www.atlantamagazine.com/civilrights/collier-heights-awarded-local-historic-district-status/; U.S. Department of the...
The Greatest Slave Rebellion in Modern History: Southern Slaves in the American Civil War
Video Part 2: The Greatest Slave Rebellion in Modern History: Southern Slaves in the American Civil War Part 3: The Greatest Slave Rebellion in Modern History: Southern Slaves in the American...
Voting Rights and Southern Legislatures Post-Shelby County v. Holder
...History"), changes to voting laws in southern states have been employed by legislators to deny African Americans and other minorities the franchise across the US South. Suitts's piece describes what...
Wounds, Vines, Scratches, and Names: Signs of Return in Southern Photography
...mix of canonical, mature artists and talented younger photographers. They are all “from” the South, where they have all lived and done important work. But for Wylie, their “southernness” lies...
A Conversation with Digital Historians
...on the idea that I wanted to study the South, which is why I ended up at the University of Virginia in the fall of 2001, which happened to have...
A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave
...attitudes that survived the Civil War and Reconstruction to terrorize African Americans in the US South deep into the twentieth century. To this day, we hear the echoes of this...
Mapping the Muggleheads: New Orleans and the Marijuana Menace, 1920–1930
...African Americans, the local newspaper evidence reveals little connection between these groups and marijuana use. The lack of African Americans identified among those arrested for marijuana during this period appears...