Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project: Remembering Ancestors
...twenty years local groups in several US cities have conducted African ancestral remembrance ceremonies marking Middle Passage sites.3These cities include New York, New York, New Orleans, Louisiana, Hampton, Virginia, Oakland,...
Segregation's Habits and Horrors: The Photographs of O. N. Pruitt
...24,771, all the while having an almost equal number of Black and white residents. The guidebook published by Mississippi's Federal Writers' Project in 1937 romanticized Columbus as "a comfortable old-tree...
The South as Foil: A Review of This Is Not Dixie
...Shirt: Terror After the Civil War (New York: Penguin Group, 2008); LeeAnna Keith, The Colfax Massacre: The Untold Story of White Power, Black Terror, and the Death of Reconstruction (New...
Brick by Brick: Atlanta’s Collier Heights
...came to this neighborhood because there was a "great need for housing for people within my group, and there were few places you could find to go." Smith, interview by...
Reconsidering Appalachian Studies
...on the subject—whether it be an historically oppressed or marginalized group or a geographic area. When it's at its best, Appalachian Studies keeps its connection with its community-based, activist side...
Landscapes and Ecologies of the US South: Essays in Eco-Cultural History
...a cadre of riverkeepers across the southern United States In recounting the work of Holland and Deborah Sheppard, executive director of the Altamaha Riverkeeper group, with her customary lyricism, Ray...
Open Access Week: The HathiTrust Ruling and Fair Use
...sixty major research institutions and libraries "working to ensure that the cultural record is preserved and accessible long into the future." The Authors Guild is group which advocates "for writers' interests...
The Bulletin—May 15, 2012
...campaign against the amendment. Ballotopedia offers a helpful overview of the amendment and the groups campaigning on both sides of the issue. The North Carolina Board of Elections maps the official...
The Bulletin—December 20, 2012
...of redistricting following the 2010 census. The plaintiff group (which includes the North Carolina chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Democracy North Carolina, the A. Philip...
Demon Rum and Politics in Middle Florida: A Review of Southern Prohibition
...right? What groups should be banned from the "Alcoholic Republic"? Not surprisingly, the Florida Legislative Council of 1832 forbade the sale of alcohol to Native Americans. Shortly thereafter, legislators prohibited...