Southern Football, African American Athletes, and the Relative Decline of the Big Ten
...Lewis, "Sherman Lewis: All-America Halfback and Longtime Coach," Michigan State Official Athletic Site, February 17, 2007, http://www.msuspartans.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/021707aaa.html. During the 1950s, MSU played in and won Rose Bowls in 1954 and...
The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation
...Southern Education Foundation's website for additional details and rankings of school districts. The highest rates were concentrated primarily in southern school districts although several non-southern states, especially Ohio, Michigan, and Indiana,...
Goin' to Chicago and African American "Great Migrations"
...Bar in South Side Chicago—a site that demonstrates where generations of migrants transported and reinvented the blues. By the 1990s, most blues clubs were outside of the black neighborhoods where...
The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi
...we have Trevor breaking down, telling his mother at her grave site, I'm gay and I'm not ashamed of it. I know you counseled otherwise, but I must live this...
Global Lives, Local Struggles: Latin American Immigrants in Atlanta
...sites of immigrant settlement in suburban Atlanta Part 5: Increased surveillance andcontrol of immigrant workers in Georgia Part 6: The construction of Latino spaces and communities, specifically Latin American Catholicism in the...
Resegregated Spaces: The Schools-to-Prisons Pipeline
Video About the Speaker Born in 1933 to Irish immigrant parents, Constance Curry grew up in Greensboro, North Carolina. She graduated from Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia, where she...
Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
...assist them, built the mission and fort of Apalachicola on the west bank of the Chattahoochee River. This site, located in Russell County, Alabama, lies about fifteen miles south of...
Insistent Traces
Readings https://vimeo.com/134755182 Claudia Emerson reads the untitled opening from Pinion: An Elegy. View poem text here. https://vimeo.com/134755765 Claudia Emerson reads the poem "Rent." View poem text here. https://vimeo.com/134756419 Claudia Emerson...
Reframing Resistance: A Review of Freedom Now!
...is, tellingly, from an unidentified photographer. "Women Resisting Arrest, Birmingham, Alabama, April 14, 1963" (96 and book cover) offers the opposite view of the black activist as victim of white...
History, Geography, and the New Orleans Tourism Industry: A Review of Bourbon Street
...Street Shooting Leaves 10 Wounded, 2 Critically, Tourism Image Scarred," NOLA.com, June 30, 2014, http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2014/06/bourbon_street_gunfight_leaves.html; Helen Freund, "Bourbon Street Shooting Victim, 21, Dies," NOLA.com, July 2, 2014, http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2014/07/bourbon_street_shooting_victim.html. For many,...