Crisis of the New Majority: Low-Income Students in the South's Public Schools
...persons with an annual income of $22,231 or less was eligible for free lunch; a student with an annual family income of $31,765 or less was eligible for reduced-price lunch....
Preserving the Memory of Ybor City, Florida
...Snyder and Jack B. Moore, Pioneer Commercial Photography: The Burgert Brothers, Tampa, Florida (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1992), 12. During the next four decades the firm stayed prosperous by continuing...
Memphis by Hand: Creative Small-Business Advertising
...of these colorful hand-painted signs speaks of persistent creativity and the spirit of small business. The sheer volume of these signs in the city affirms the popularity of this mode...
The Liminal Site
...the Park Problems, Needs, and Opportunities of the City and its Immediate Surroundings (Birmingham: Park and Recreation Board of Birmingham, 1925), 12. Reprinted by the Birmingham Historical Society, 2005. "It...
Imagining Southern Bodies: A Review of Sex, Sickness, and Slavery
...(3). John Adams Whipple, Louis Agassiz, January, 1865. With great thoroughness, Sex, Sickness, and Slavery documents how physicians eagerly brought the evidence of medical science to the aid of the...
Residues of Border Control
...made. –Sophie Gee, Making Waste: Leftovers and the Eighteenth Century Imagination, p. 17 The photographs are a means of making “real” (or “more real”) matters that the privileged or the...
End of the Pandemic? A Grassroots Perspective
...that left people who were unemployed or homeless without access to relief.5"Gov. Kemp Announces First Round of This Year's Special Tax Refund," Department of Revenue, May 1, 2023, https://dor.georgia.gov/press-releases/2023-05-01/gov-kemp-announces-first-round-years-special-tax-refund#:~:text=Single%20filers%20and%20married%20individuals,a%20maximum%20refund%20of%20%24500. Free99fridge...
Race and Difference in the "Other America": A Review of Anne Braden: Southern Patriot
...Patriot resembles Henry Hampton’s Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years (Part 1, 1986; Part 2, 1989) in narrative style, content, and editing. Anne Braden in the SCEF office...
Public Health in the US and Global South
...taken up hookworm and pellagra as challenges. Funding for health reform began to increase after World War I. New Deal spending doubled the number of county health departments, from 396 in...
Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia
...Gazette-Mail (WV), April 12, 1994; "All About Business," Charleston Daily Mail (WV), April 26, 1994. Utility companies recognized the importance of obtaining quality coal as cheaply as possible. For example, American...