Rethinking the Geography of Lynching
...is gained by doing so. This is particularly perplexing since another stated goal of the collection is to consider lynching as a discursive act. Precisely because the word "lynching" has...
"We're Almost There": The Drive-By Truckers' Art of Place
...“fresh out of college,” the “first in her family to go,” thinks California “just might be heaven.” In preparation for her westerly journey, she “worked on losing her southern accent.”...
Enslaved Labor and Building the Smithsonian: Reading the Stones
...Washington Peter, and a family associate.)7The use of enslaved labor at the Peter family’s Seneca quarry definitively dates to as early as 1823. In that year the Federal government undertook...
The US South and the 2008 Election
...is often difficult, however, distinguishing between what is truly notable historically and that which is mere post-election chatter. Map of the Sunbelt (marked in red) One noteworthy aspect of the...
Still under the Influence: The Bioregional Origins of the Hub City Writers Project
...of my perception were cleansed, it was by poetry. My friend John Featherston, certifiably one of Spartanburg's first hippies, says I really didn't miss much. There never really was a...
Brown, Black, and White in Texas
...a conclusion which is disappointingly summative. Third, Behnken occasionally falls back upon language which reinforces the whiteness which has been, in part, a focus of his study. Perhaps unwittingly, he...
Struggle Against Disease and Discrimination: The Jesse Peel Papers
...this endeavor is Peel's manuscript collection. Originally from North Carolina, Peel moved to Atlanta in 1976 where, as a person with HIV, he experienced first-hand both the devastating effects of...
The Bulletin—May 8, 2013
...system was not really valid anyway, since it only received fifty-one rather than the required fifty-three votes in the House and was filed late. It is unclear now where the...
"Looking Back and Moving Forward": The Records of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference at Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library
...some material from the presidency of Martin Luther King, III (1997–2003). The records starkly display the differences in leadership styles, particularly between Abernathy and Lowery. Researchers can also chart the...
Memorializing the Freedom Riders
...the off-putting label "Toxic Town USA." A bitterly contested fight over the chemical weapons incinerator at the Anniston Army Depot, where military personnel and civilian employees are destroying deadly Cold...