African American Community Building in Atlanta: A Guide to the Study of Race in America
...schools, streetcars, libraries, restaurants and parks. The urban environment created new opportunities for the application of Jim Crow. Atlanta relegated Blacks to separate elevators. The new zoo at Grant Park...
Preserving the Memory of Ybor City, Florida
...camera atop new Burgert Brothers truck parked by Davis Island pool building, Tampa, Florida, 1936. Catalog no.: PA 5906. In the Tampa Bay area at the turn of the century...
Finding Media
...copyright. Creators can choose a number of different licenses, specifying what kinds of uses are permitted. CC also offers a useful search function, allowing a user to find particular types...
The X-Codes: A Post-Katrina Postscript
...honor: Part historic preservation, part act of defiance, the spray-painted markings of Katrina rescue workers remain prominently displayed on many reoccupied New Orleans homes." New Orleans Times-Picayune, July 24, 2007....
An Upcountry Legacy: Mary Black's Family Quilts
...Laura lived first with their stepmother and later with their double aunt and uncle, A. J. Daniel and Nancy Snoddy Daniel. Samuel Miller Snoddy served as guardian ad litem for...
I-26, Corridor of Change
...at Chapel Hill) http://docsouth.unc.edu/sohp/K-505/menu.html Interview with Sam Parker, a Madison County Probation/Parole Officer about his leaving suburbia in the 1960s for rural life and the transformation of the area. (December...
Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron
...and throughout the 1970s, several white critics complained that African American music had lost its southern grit. In particular, the steady decline of the Memphis-based recording label, Stax, symbolized for...
Dancing Around the "Glaring Light of Television": Black Teen Dance Shows in the South
...appear on your 'Dance Party'?"42Hazel Jordan, letter to J.D. Lewis (WRAL), May 8, 1966, Lewis Family Papers, folder 140. Fans also felt free to criticize the format of Teenage Frolics....
Voting Rights and Southern Legislatures Post-Shelby County v. Holder
...Republican lawmakers in the state also plan to introduce an "omnibus voting bill" in the next few weeks that would decrease the number of early voting days and eliminate Sunday...
When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras
...Cleveland had a male vocalist in the gospel world occupied such a ubiquitous presence on gospel radio. Tunes like "The Storm Is Passing Over," "Lily in the Valley," "Never Shall...