Preserving the Memory of Ybor City, Florida
...Dnd0457. Donn Dughi was a United Press International photographer who was assigned to the Florida legislature for decades. The Florida Photographic Archive includes many of his photographs, including those of...
Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
...Album, 1–2. In 1825, with the signing of the infamous Treaty of Indian Springs between the United States and the Creek Nation, the way was opened for the forced final...
James Holland, Riverkeeper: Environmental Protection along the Altamaha
...up, and who, in the process, became somebody he never dreamed of being. The story is about the creation of a group of advocates in a part of the United...
Crisis of the New Majority: Low-Income Students in the South's Public Schools
...states as the US South: Louisiana, Mississippi, Florida, Texas, Oklahoma, Alabama, Arkansas, Tennessee, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, West Virginia, Kentucky, Virginia, Maryland. Today the South is the only section...
Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron
...he did so often, to his southern roots. Following the complex migratory paths traversed by African Americans in the postwar United States, Gil Scott-Heron was born in Chicago, Illinois, in...
Hillside Refuge: Tornado Shelters in Northeast Mississippi
...Oklahoma twisters. While the United States experiences more tornadoes than anywhere else on earth, these storms also occur further south of the infamous Tornado Alley. Parts of Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama,...
The US South and the 2008 Election
...capital and federal dollars moved southward, people followed. In the 1960s, the South reversed a historic trend: more people moved into this section of the United States than out of...
Mapping Souths
...closely sealed off from the North geographically, nor a moral unity. It is not a country at all, but a battle slogan.2Karl Marx, "The Civil War in the United States,"...
A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl
...Celestine Sibley was one of the most read writers in the southeastern United States during the last half of the twentieth century. Her columns—some ten-thousand during her career—appeared almost daily...
Goin' to Chicago and African American "Great Migrations"
Introduction Filmed during the 1990s and released on PBS in 2000, Goin’ to Chicago is a sixty minute film about the largest internal movement of people in United States history—the...