Voting Rights, the Supreme Court, and the Persistence of Southern History
...http://www2.bloomberglaw.com/public/desktop/document/Northwest_Austin_Mun_Utility_Dist_No_One_v_Holder_129_S_Ct_2504_1. Like opponents to Section 5, Roberts cited increases in black and Hispanic voter registration and in the number of elected officials as evidence of how much the South has...
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...
The Bulletin—March 20, 2013
...which did not clarify whether "one person one vote" requires districts to be measured by number of people or by number of eligible voters. A recent New York Times article...
Latinos, the American South, and the Future of US Race Relations
...estimated in April 2006 that "there must be 10,000 to 20,000 immigrant workers in the region by now, and the number is going to grow."3Sam Quinones, "Migrants Find a Gold...
COVID-19 Vaccine and the Right to Public Health
...went into arms and by mid-March 2021, a quarter of the population had received at least one vaccine; six months later that number rose to 85 percent. Although Black Democrats...
Editors
...Alabama, Klibanoff joined Emory in 2010 at the close of a thirty-six-year career in newspaper journalism in Mississippi and at The Boston Globe, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution,...
Vivir en las Fronteras: Inmigrantes Maya de Guatemala en el Sur de los Estados Unidos
William Brown, Emory University Mary Odem, Emory University Ana María Diaz Burgos, Traductor Published: 12 July 2011 William Brown and Mary Odem, Niños bailando en el día de la celebración...
Sweep
...ballcarrier who follows the sweep, and it comes, and comes on. Published in Salvation Blues: One Hundred Poems, 1985-2005 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2006), 4-5. Published: 22 January 2009 ©...
Homage to Mississippi John Hurt
...name of joy is music. Published in Salvation Blues: One Hundred Poems, 1985-2005 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2006), 194-196. Published: 22 January 2009 © 2009 Rodney Jones and Southern Spaces...
Gulf of Knowledge: The Hidden Scientific History of the Early American Southeast
...marked "SPQA," likely signifying "Senate and People of the American Republic," rendering the goddess an allegorical figure for Americans in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and other northeastern cities where Romans...