"Rights Still Being Righted": Scottsboro Eighty Years Later
Review Scottsboro, Alabama 2011 marks the first public commemoration in Scottsboro of the anniversary of the arrests that irrevocably linked the town’s name with Jim Crow. The stories of the...
Words Like a Fire: MARBL's Kennedy and Sons Collection
...occurred at predominantly black rural churches from Arkansas to Virginia, targeted the very places that writer Amiri Baraka has described as the "social focal points" of black life.3LeRoi Jones, Blues...
Selma Bridge: Always Under Construction
...education program in Hawaii where he met Obama's mother, a white student from Kansas. "There was something stirring across the country because of what happened in Selma, Alabama," he said,...
White Flight: The Strategies, Ideology, and Legacy of Segregationists in Atlanta
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Inside Poor Monkey's
Introduction Poor Monkey's sits in a cotton field in Bolivar County, west of the town of Merigold on the Hiter farm, land worked by members of the same family for...
Brass Knuckles
...didn't like the look on that ol' nigger's face. Published in Chattahoochee (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2004). Published: 14 April 2009 © 2009 Patrick Phillips and Southern Spaces...
Junction City newspaper
...Kansas, at least, does not want them, and, indeed, cannot support them. The conviction is growing everywhere, that if the movement continues, the north must use shot-guns in self defense."...
Belle plaine newspaper
...than in Alabama and may wait till he gets out of Kansas before being to[o] hasty again." Published: 6 September 2007 © 2007 Brent M.S. Campney and Southern Spaces...
The Suburban Wild: Coyotes in Druid Hills
A few months ago, my husband and I moved from rural Arkansas to the great Atlanta sprawl and settled in Druid Hills, a neighborhood within walking distance of Emory University's...
Catfish Dream: An African American Vision in the Delta
...and Racial Justice in the Mississippi Delta (University of Georgia Press, 2018). Courtesy of Willena Scott-White. Bottom, Soybean field, Crittenden County, Arkansas, August 3, 2013. Photograph by Thomas R. Machnitzki....