Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Two
...them in life-long debt to the landlord. Two-thirds of southern tenants were white, and among sharecroppers, there were about equal numbers of Black and white farmers (Mertz). The shared misery...
The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion
...showing the locations of Brownsville, Laredo, and Eagle Pass, 1882. Courtesy of Library of Congress Geography and Map Division, catalog number 98688791. Fevered Measures surveys smallpox and yellow fever epidemics...
Low Country Travelers: An African American Car Club of Charleston County, South Carolina
...construction of bridges across the Santee River to the north and the Cooper River to Charleston in the 1920s. Today, the town’s largely white population numbers around 450. Conversely, the...
Image Credits
...public domain. Title screenshot from "The Rejected," originally aired KQED, San Francisco, California, September 11, 1961. Screenshot by Eric Solomon, March 2018. Title screenshot from "The Homosexuals," originally aired CBS television, March...
The Change
...to hold a six pack on ice. In the one hundred, fifteen degree summer heat with air so thick with moisture you drink as you breathe. Before the...
Returning Home, Saxon Mills
...a wicker chair, lived like a vine growing outward through children. She made biscuits for breakfast, kneaded the dough with fat hands, washed clothes of six kids and a grandchild...
Runaway
...that tree's duty to that Smell and knew too my duty to tear like a switch through Air, to strike the street's edge in a pair of tattered shoes, Unconnected,...
Fort Scott newspapers
Fort Scott Daily Monitor. October 7, 1883 "Acquit Him" "From the statements of those present at the killing of McDaniel on the fair ground yesterday, the negro man, May, did...
Jackson, Mississippi images
...business district. Mississippi State Fair Held annually in October, the Mississippi State Fair draws visitors from throughout the South. Published: 28 February 2007 © 2007 David Wharton and Southern Spaces...
Excerpt from Saints at the River
...Fifty yards downstream a granite cliff rises two hundred feet into the air to cast this section of river into shadow. She glances back to where her parents and brother...