The Other Side of Paradise: Glimpsing Slavery in the University's Utopian Landscapes
...Tullos, Avis Williams and Emogene Williams. With the exception of J.P. Godfrey Jr. and Emogene Williams, who have consented to being identified, all other quoted persons are identified through pseudonyms....
African American Community Building in Atlanta: A Guide to the Study of Race in America
...opportunities could not be considered areas of autonomy, they were, nevertheless, windows of business opportunity. In time as Jim Crow intensified, these windows would shut, but other windows of business...
Preserving the Memory of Ybor City, Florida
...a Librarian" feature, the Florida Electronic Library contains two principal divsions: Florida Memory and Florida on Florida. Florida on Florida Florida on Florida is "a comprehensive digital collection of Florida's...
Finding Media
...photographers on Flickr through the CC search, but it’s always a good idea to double-check with the author whenever possible. We found images from the 2011 Tuscaloosa, Alabama tornado by...
The X-Codes: A Post-Katrina Postscript
...North Carolina, for a wedding and observed the aftermath of that September's devastating floods resulting from the torrential rains of Hurricane Floyd. Shells of houses stood spray-painted with large Xs....
An Upcountry Legacy: Mary Black's Family Quilts
...devoted to ensuring that the names and relations of the makers would be remembered. The number of quilts and the care with which they were labeled suggests that she thought...
I-26, Corridor of Change
...of what that meant. I was taken with the romantic idea of wizened faces, old women in doorways, men plowing into the sunsets, hog butchering in the misty morning light....
Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron
...witnesses who said that Mr. Tyler had been the gunman. Never mind that the main witness, a former girlfriend of Mr. Tyler's, was a troubled youngster who had been under...
Voting Rights and Southern Legislatures Post-Shelby County v. Holder
...and redistricting plans would go into effect immediately without approval from the federal government. In a similar move, South Carolina's Attorney General Alan Wilson declared that the state's new voter ID...
When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras
...not Crouch himself but his student Marvin Winans. Standing before a grief-stricken audience of family, friends, music legends, and curious onlookers, Winans belted out Crouch's latest hit, "Let the Church...