"Looking Back and Moving Forward": The Records of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference at Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library
...1970, lawyer and activist Pauli Murray expressed her ambivalence toward the organization: While I am recording this material on behalf of SCLC, . . . for quite some time, I’ve...
A Green Democratic Revolution
...issue, movements to protect the living environment have existed for a long time in different forms. As André Gorz noted in Ecologica: "The ecological movement was born long before the...
The Law and the Mississippi Basin: A Review of Mississippi River Tragedies
...make a powerful argument for more sustainable floodplain use, claiming that "[w]e have wasted more than a century pursuing a foolish idea: the floodless floodplain." Now "[i]t's time to try...
Ireland’s First Sacred Harp Convention: “To Meet To Part No More”
...Ireland Convention, travel brought sizable numbers of European singers to each other’s singings for the first time.14A handful of Irish singers visited the United Kingdom in April, 2011, for the...
Voting Rights and Southern Legislatures Post-Shelby County v. Holder
Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., June 7, 2009. Photograph by Mark Fischer. Courtesy of Mark Fischer. As our bulletins have previously reported, legislatures in a number of southern states...
Coop Co-Op: Agrarian Ideals, City Codes, and the Backyard Chicken Movement
...has gone since we began teaching it several times a year, attracting participants from in-town as well as the suburbs and exurbs. Coops were springing up across metro backyards. Allison...
Public School Politics: A Review of The End of Consensus
...(42, 47). As the numbers and voices of newer residents surpassed those of long-time residents, the diversity policy long understood as "fair and beneficial to children of all backgrounds" became...
Interstate Road Project, Single-State History: Tammy Ingram's Look at the Dixie Highway
...recounts how farmers and merchants chafed at the railroads' control over freight cost and time schedules and at the difficulties of navigating poor surrounding road infrastructure. By the late nineteenth...
Hillside Refuge: Tornado Shelters in Northeast Mississippi
...number of reported tornadoes in the state each year is twenty-five, with sixty-two the highest number reported in a single year, and five the fewest. The average number of tornado-related...
Jake Adam York Interviews Sandra Beasley
...from Passages North at Northern Michigan University. Her poems have appeared in anthologies such as The Best American Poetry 2010, Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, and Best New Poets 2005 and...