States' Rights Resurgent: The Attack on the Voting Rights Act
...Education, which declared that segregation—separate and unequal—was unconstitutional. In the era of massive white resistance to court-ordered desegregation, white political officials justified their actions on the basis of states' rights...
A City Divided
...the hopes that the black populace would follow. They organized meetings between white political leadership and school and African Methodist Episcopal Church officials. They offered cash. They offered land. And...
Public School Politics: A Review of The End of Consensus
...district—would ultimately fade as public officials, business leaders, and area residents "generally supported the board's policies" and approved the schools' performance through the 1980s and into 1990s (22). However, as...
Mother Jones: Back in Alabama
...one of the most famous women in America. Local officials locked her up to keep her away from strike zones, but she always said she could raise more hell in...
Taming Southern Waters: Christopher J. Manganiello’s Southern Water, Southern Power
...is deeply intertwined with political, social, and economic history. He observes that conversations about recreation opportunities at new dams after World War II "among leisure-seekers, state planners, elected officials, and...
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
...in education—discrimination that prevailed, with official approval, for the first 165 years of this Nation’s constitutional history,” he wrote. “That governmental interest substantially outweighs whatever burden denial of tax benefits...
Wanted eLove: Queer Square Spaces and the Revolution in Digital Intimacy
...who can be seen clearly and what or who might be made cloudy. We find this early thinking replicated from 1908 through the official Homophile years of activism beginning in...
Voting Rights: Justice Alito's False, Partisan Facts
...since the Court understood that southern officials were using a non-governmental political party's all-white primary as an essential tool in the state government's plan to minimize the impact of Black...
End of the Pandemic? A Grassroots Perspective
...one of many non-profit groups that will be affected. In Georgia, the COVID state of emergency officially ended in May 2022, even as it remained in place at the national...