Transcript: Interview with Jim Bunkley
...Records. From "Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley" by Steve Bransford. George Mitchell: Where were you born? Jim Bunkley: In Talbot County. Mitchell: In Talbot County. Right around here. When...
Marching for Gay Rights in Atlanta, 1971: An Excerpt from A Night at the Sweet Gum Head
...people were shamed and muted, jailed, exiled, and put in danger. Often they were left no choice but to leave home, and to run away to cities where they might...
Bioregional Approach to Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta
...Yazoo-Mississippi floodplain. The eastern boundary is defined by a series of bluffs that begin just below Memphis and run south to Greenwood and thence southwesterly along the Yazoo River, which...
Opening Spaces: On Tolerance and the Possibility for Love
...long been described with an array of debasing superlatives, consistently occupying the proverbial bottom rung of the ladder in our national obsession with rankings. Writing in 1931, H. L. Mencken...
Navigating Jim Crow: A Review of Adolph L. Reed's The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
...to learn differing local white rules of Jim Crow if and when they moved to new places across the southern states—and even in the same city where rules applied differently...
Sonic Zora in Florida
...the swinging "Charleston rhythms" of "Oh the Buford Boat Done Come," music picked up by Hurston from a South Carolina Geechee country woman she met in Florida. She stands at...
Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project: Remembering Ancestors
...if they will support the designation of Middle Passage arrival ports: Baltimore and Oxford, Maryland. Marker at Historic Jamestowne, Virginia, placed on August 23, 2013. Courtesy of MPCPMP. Over the last...
Mother Jones: Back in Alabama
...The Most Dangerous Woman in America (New York: Hill and Wang, 2001), and most recently, Let the People See: The Story of Emmett Till (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018)....
The Sub Series: Henry County, Georgia
...built upon hyper-speculative lending and building. (top left) Red ruts and black rubber; (top middle) Tenuous; (top right) Playing Indian; (bottom left) Developer's flag; (bottom right) Carpenter's level and sun...
Work
...Louisiana State University Press. What Travels With Us is the winner of the 2005 Weatherford Award from the Appalachian Studies Association and Berea College, as well as the Southern Independent...