At Sun Ra's Grave
...the furnaces to the dead West End. They nest in boxcars and dance-hall doors boarded up to keep the silence in. They rattle White and Colored signs from scrapheaps and...
Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery: From Slavery to Segregation
...the South at between 10 and 12 percent in 1860, although the product of mixed-race unions constituted more significant proportions of city dwellers: 39 percent of free blacks and 20...
Black Markets and the US-Mexico Border
...the Discourse of Drug Control," Cultural Critique, no. 71 (2009), 13. A sign at the humble ferry station for the hand-pulled Los Ebanos Ferry or El Chalan [...] that travels...
Contesting the Roadways: The Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment and a Confederate Flag Rally, July 25, 2015
...spoke of dedicating the reenactment to the memory of the "Charleston 9." When black and white reenactors entered the church sanctuary before embarking on the motorcade, they wore signs proclaiming...
Southern Football, African American Athletes, and the Relative Decline of the Big Ten
...at any major US university to recruit significant numbers of African Americans in a given signing class. Bell enjoyed an illustrious career at Minnesota, winning a national championship in 1960...
Open Access Week: The HathiTrust Ruling and Fair Use
...welcomed the ruling this week, suggesting that it helps set a significant precedent regarding the relationship between library intiatives and copyright laws. "This ruling is significant for all libraries and universities because...
"The Ohio River Was Not the River Jordan": A Review of Matthew Salafia's Slavery's Borderland
Review The Ohio River figures prominently in what are arguably the three most significant novels of American slavery. Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin and Toni Morrison's Beloved both feature...
Still under the Influence: The Bioregional Origins of the Hub City Writers Project
...written in the style of the emerging genre of the personal essay. The book would have an elegance of design and layout. We hoped that it would lift the literary...
A Trumped-Up Dixie: White Southern Republicans and Immigration Reform
...Prints and Photographs division, LC-DIG-pga-03338. As a condition of voting or holding office, whites in the post-Civil War South were initially required to sign oaths affirming that they had...
Battle of Atlanta Project Discussion and Exhibit Set for July 17 at Emory's Woodruff Library
...light. Project members drew on Pollock's research to pinpoint twelve significant areas—most now unrecognizable due to the city's growth—and created a GPS-guided tour enhanced with information and images gathered from...