Goin' to Chicago and African American "Great Migrations"
...a comment from a researcher that I hired to track down historical film and video of black Chicago. One day during a phone call she expressed anger and frustration at...
North Carolina: A State of Shock
..."Senate Budget Is Wrong Path for North Carolina: Plan Includes Tax Cuts for the Wealthy, Shorts Investments in Vital Services," BTC Reports 19, no. 3 (May 2013), http://itep.org/reports_using_itep_data/2013/06/north-carolina-budget-tax-center-gambling-away-our-future.php; Patrick Gannon,...
Regions of Alabama
...of place to "Alabamians," highlighting the good and bad of provincialism Part 4: Dr. Flynt explores the failure of Alabama's political leadership About the Speaker Wayne Flynt, Distinguished University Professor...
Reverend Will D. Campbell, Southern Racial Reconciler
...was many things to us," he recalled. "Preacher, prophet, picker, poet. He had an uncanny way of making whoever gathered around him feel like they were part of the mix,...
Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy
...racing along the highway crept into my left ear. Untitled (James River), from the series Stony the Road, 2023, Gelatin Silver Print by Dawoud Bey (American, born 1953). Virginia Museum...
Marching for Gay Rights in Atlanta, 1971: An Excerpt from A Night at the Sweet Gum Head
...the group tambourined their way to the park and called to motel balconies: "Join us!" "This is just like the early anti-war marches," one straight-identified protester marveled, "the way passers-by...
Artist Repertoire Index
...Studying As the Time Roll On Strutting That Thing Tin Top Alley (Yonder Goes My Baby) Warren, J.W. (1981, 1982) Blue Hawaii Careless Love Corrinna Highway 51 Hoboing My Way...
Hijacking Public Housing: A Review of New Deal Ruins
...Goetz, "displaced an estimated one million people from the time of its enactment in 1949 to 1965… So, too, the development of the interstate highway system, as it carved its...
A Turning Point for Richmond: The Virginia Historical Society's Civil War Exhibition
...a runaway slave, called "The Journey to Freedom." Taken as a whole, the exhibition succeeds in introducing important new themes in Civil War scholarship to the public. Perhaps nowhere has...
Sams Gap, North Carolina
...area because the new road is one way of getting from Johnson City to Asheville as fast as you can. The people that are passing this road (Highway 23) right...