Shades of Violence: Jim Crow Justice and Black Resistance in the Depression-Era South
...Crow as irredeemably violent and repressive. The ILD fought legal lynchings in the courts; its supporters—numbering several thousand in Alabama alone by the early 1930s—argued that the real fight was...
Voting Rights: Justice Alito's False, Partisan Facts
...seven Congressional districts.2Amy Howe, "In 5–4 vote, Justices Reinstate Alabama Voting Map Despite Lower Court's Ruling that It Dilutes Black Votes," Scotusblog, Feb. 7, 2022, https://www.scotusblog.com/2022/02/in-5-4-vote-justices-reinstate-alabama-voting-map-despite-lower-courts-ruling-that-it-dilutes-black-votes/; Merrill v. Milligan, 142...
A Green Democratic Revolution
...arguments used in the United States by the Sunrise Movement and Alexandra Ocasio Cortez, who, on 5 February 2019, presented a path-breaking resolution to deal with climate change to the...
Black. Queer. Southern. Women.
Presentation Part One Black women who influenced Johnson's thinking about literature, folklore, the arts, and "quare theory" while growing up in western North Carolina and when attending UNC–Chapel Hill (5:27)....
Managing Malaria: The Emory University Field Station and The Melvin H. Goodwin Papers
...Disease Control. As an early cover of the CDC Bulletin indicates, it is difficult to overestimate the centrality of malaria research, treatment, and eradication to the early history of the...
Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in Native American Literature: A Panel Discussion
...of ten books on Native literature, dealt with issues of nationalism as early as 1989 in The Voice in the Margin: Native American Literature and the Canon. Without many other...
Nearly exhausted sulphur vat from which railroad cars are loaded, Freeport Sulphur Co., Hoskins Mound, Texas, 1943
Race & Gender in the Latinx South: A Review of Cecilia Márquez’s Making the Latino South & Sarah McNamara’s Ybor City
...Márquez, Making the Latino South: A History of Racial Formation (University of North Carolina Press, 2023), 17. Between the 1940s through early 2000s, Márquez places questions about Latino racialization at...
"Looking Back and Moving Forward": The Records of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference at Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library
...circa 1970s. Courtesy of SCLC records, MARBL, Emory University. Among the SCLC staffers represented in the collection is Fred Taylor, who worked for the organization for nearly forty years with...
Glimpsing Andalusia in the O'Connor-Hester Letters
...that Andalusia served a dual function for O'Connor, providing the solitude and seclusion necessary for her work as a writer while accommodating a nearly constant flow of visitors—so creating a...