Deep Ellum Blues
...Dallas onwards, which treated Deep Ellum as "Harlem in Miniature," "Deep Elem Blues" has served as the emblematic song of the blues experience in Dallas (though it shares a number...
When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras
...number of African Americans migrating to the South exceeded the number of those leaving the region. Especially for returning and primary migrants frustrated by the declining economic opportunities available in...
Ossabaw Island Flyover
...of it—Cumberland, Jekyll, St. Simons, Sapelo, and St. Catherines—Ossabaw is a composite island, in which sediments from Pleistocene and Holocene shorelines are directly adjacent or superimposed. However, sediments of the...
Aunt Narcissa's Quilt [ca 1880]
...the household inventory of Mary's maternal grandparents is much less detailed, but nonetheless revealing. When Silas Benson died in 1875, the officials conducting the inventory chose to provide a single...
Art, Diaspora, and Identity: The John Biggers Papers
...wrote passionately about this "double consciousness" of African American identity. MARBL and Woodruff Library contain extensive holdings of The Crisis, the NAACP's official journal. While his early pieces adhered to...
A Trumped-Up Dixie: White Southern Republicans and Immigration Reform
...killing on the battlefield, or hanging upon the gallows" all Confederates.5Randall, Constitutional Problems Under Lincoln, 99. Military and federal authorities charged or indicted a significant number of former confederate leaders, including...
Bioregional Approach to Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta
...in climate, vegetation, and landform as an aid to conservation problems. Regional differences were officially recognized in Robert G. Bailey's 1978 book, which divided the United States into 60 "ecoregions"...
States' Rights Resurgent: The Attack on the Voting Rights Act
...the United States, due process and equal protection of the laws, House apportionment based on "the whole number of persons," and citizens' right to vote without regard to "race, color,...
Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond
...a triumphant passage to the "gloryland" with West African ritual/festival processions. These generally include a somber procession to the cemetery by a "first line" of mourners and funeral officials, followed...
The Supreme Court Is Overturning Brown v. Board of Education
...with a token number of Black students to deflect federal scrutiny, and that increasingly professed nonracial reasons for their practices, often citing religion. Many headmasters of the “segregation academies” by...