Majority of Nation's Public School Students Now Low-Income
...The implications of this trend are far-reaching. It indicates persisting economic hardship for a large number of families with school-age children, signaling that children who usually have the largest educational...
Art, Diaspora, and Identity: The John Biggers Papers
...Biggers Papers, Emory University Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library. In July 1957, Houston-based artist John Biggers traveled on a United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) fellowship to...
The Bulletin—August 21, 2012
...affected area whose livlihoods are seriously endangered by the dry weather. While the Midwest has been hit hardest by this year's drought, farmers and ranchers in the US South (like the...
A Trumped-Up Dixie: White Southern Republicans and Immigration Reform
...to enjoy and exercise far more than black southerners during the ensuing century. Several congressional leaders argued that universal amnesty for former confederate leaders was far too generous. Massachusetts senator...
A City Divided
...and Mitchell complained that streetcar access brought African Americans into the area, and they proposed rerouting the car lines. Others blamed Bishop C. S. Smith of Morris Brown College, who...
The Digital Yoknapatawpha Project
...is housed. There are also collaborative editors and advising editors. Collaboration How many people are involved in the project? Taylor Hagood: At the moment, there are over thirty editors in...
The Bulletin—July 24, 2012
...ranchers sold nearly 36,000 head of cattle last week, triple the number from a few weeks ago. The Arkansas River Basin has been hit especially hard, which is evident in this map...
Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond
...the Indians and the second lines and we are the culture that go all year round. We are the culture that don’t stop. We don’t want to take nothin’ from...
"Holding on to Those Who Can't Be Held": Reenacting a Lynching at Moore's Ford, Georgia
...of the English Civil War, the American Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, World War I and World War II, as well as medieval and Viking combat and Royal Navy...
African Americans in Atlanta: Adrienne Herndon, an Uncommon Woman
...assaulting White women. In fear and disgust, Adrienne moved her young son Norris to Philadelphia to live with relatives. She enrolled at the Academy which was not far away in...