Reverend Will D. Campbell, Southern Racial Reconciler
...Lewis (now a congressman from Atlanta). In 1957, Campbell was present at the desegregation of Central High School in Little Rock and at the first meeting of the Southern Christian...
Eggleston's South: "Always in Color"
...a little awning that echoes the bigger awning over the door and window, is just the kind of detail Evans would have picked up on to juxtapose the old and...
The Bulletin—April 24, 2013
...if they agree to relocation. On March 29, Exxon-Mobil's sixty-five-year-old Pegasus pipeline burst in Mayflower, Arkansas. The town, which lies twenty-five miles northwest of Little Rock, was inundated with an estimated 210,000...
Andalusia: Photographs of Flannery O'Connor's Farm
...The driveway is a rocky dirt road that winds up through a leafy tunnel. The two-story house, situated at the top of the hill, is simple white clapboard with columns...
John Yoshida in Arkansas, 1943
...away, yielded nothing. Not a clue. John Howard, Cemetery at Rowher, Arkansas, concentration camp, 2004. A full day after he'd gone AWOL, John Yoshida had gotten little further than a...
Envisioning Faulkner and Southern Literature
...the rise of recorded music and his acknowledged influence on British and American rockers, the names of blues queens alone—Ma Rainey (billed as "Mother of the Blues" and "Songbird of...
Bricking the Church
...gullies. The little churchhouse now looks more like a post office or school. It's hard to find among the brown winter slopes or plowed fields of spring. Brick was prestigious...
Brick by Brick: Atlanta’s Collier Heights
...in our basements. See, we can come in here and entertain in this living room, but that recreation room downstairs is where we came and had our little dances, where...
Roadside Architecture
...Mississippi and the states bordering it had, for me, been little more than places to drive through on the way to somewhere else. When the mid-South unexpectedly became my home,...
The "Achilles' Heel" of Jim Crow: A Review of Landscapes of Exclusion
...black bathers would pollute the water, planners eliminated possible sites for Negro parks in areas upstream from white parks (118). States did as little as possible; Negro park facilities usually...