Selma Bridge: Always Under Construction
...list of actors and moments through which, "every so often," compassionate people in particular places call upon their "fundamental goodness to make this country great again:" "that band of patriots...
No Place To Be Displaced: Katrina Response and the Deep South's Political Economy
...and other research, Jenny Castellow, Beth Fadeley, Uma Kandasarny, Christina Griffin, Joanne Rinaldi Stevenson. Finally, I greatly appreciate feedback on the manuscript from the Women's and Gender Studies core faculty...
The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation
...of the "Great Recession," more than 1,000 public school districts across every state in the Union—2/5 of the more than 2,700 school districts for which data was available in 2008—had...
James Holland, Riverkeeper: Environmental Protection along the Altamaha
...strong, you have two hands capable of doing anything. You have a great mind. I have given you eyes to see and ears to hear. But I have given you...
Still Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease
...assessment of whether the movement had succeeded or failed depended a great deal on whose goals were used as the standard of measurement—and goals varied considerably among different participants. Moreover,...
COVID-19: Lessons in Ignorance
...scientist Eric Stern reminds us, despite the formidable obstacles to learning from a crisis, great benefits can accrue from lessons that are deeply reflective, methodologically sound, and highly pragmatic.17Eric Stern,...
Sonic Zora in Florida
...Kennedy, "Zora's Contributions," n.d., unpublished manuscript, n.p., Zora Neale Hurston Box 1, Stetson Kennedy Papers, uncataloged. Kennedy was one of Hurston's greatest defenders and also one of the most consistent...
Visions for Sustainable Agriculture in Cuba and the United States: Changing Minds and Models through Exchange
...in control, tourism could create greater inequalities and exacerbate food insecurity. Therefore any emphasis on tourism has to take into account who owns and controls the local food system. Charles...
In Memory Hill Cemetery
...have a Polaroid Land Camera 340, old as me purchased in the early seventies, inherited from great uncle Phineas. It works but every photograph is a ritual — no auto...
August, 1959: Morning Service
...rowed like the gravestones of my kin, but the a cappella hymn sung by my great-aunt, this years before the Smithsonian taped her voice as if the song of some...