Dancing Around the "Glaring Light of Television": Black Teen Dance Shows in the South
...Lewis secured Pepsi Cola, which sponsored Teenage Frolics as part of the "special markets" campaign to increase sales of the beverage among African Americans.37On Pepsi marketing to black customers, see...
"Looking Back and Moving Forward": The Records of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference at Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library
...and unedited production transcripts. Feminists often expressed reservations and concerns about the position of women within SCLC. In the unedited transcript of an interview recorded in Boston on November 1,...
All Roads Led from Rome: Facing the History of Cherokee Expulsion
...the Ad Hoc collection, Georgia Archives, University System of Georgia. Bottom, John Ross House, Rossville, Georgia, 1952. Courtesy of the National Park Service. The lottery wheel had been turning for...
Preserving the Memory of Ybor City, Florida
...and culture. This essay organizes and explores online documentary works pertaining to Ybor City in its heyday. Map of Hillsborough County within Florida Map of the City of Tampa within...
Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...way to the hiring hall through a series of drop-offs and handovers. This chain of concerned people included nuns who told him about Ministries United for Service and Training and...
Scales Intimate and Sprawling: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Geography of Marriage in Virginia
...col. 2, Valley of the Shadow online, http://valley.lib.virginia.edu/news/vv1866/va.au.vv.1866.02.21.xml#03; U.D. Poe to P.P. Cleveland, April 30, 1867, Valley of the Shadow online, http://valley.lib.virginia.edu/papers/B0192 source available NARA BRFAL, RG 105; P. Cleveland...
Hearing the Call: The Cultural and Spiritual Journey of Rosemary McCombs Maxey
...Indian Country outside the Creek Nation, among Lakota people in South Dakota, for example; as an advocate for Native Hawaiian prisoners incarcerated in Oklahoma and Arizona; as an interim pastor...
Religion and the US South
...these aspirations. The ring shout was the most distinctive expression of religious worship in the praise service, with African-derived dancing and body movement emphasized. The invisible religion of the slave quarters also...
DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
...and warnings expressed in news coverage of the chemical, and throughout government and scientific reports, documents, and publications on DDT. As one news clipping service noted, "not a few" of...
No Place To Be Displaced: Katrina Response and the Deep South's Political Economy
...service providers, and evacuees reveal how people coming to and living in these two southern locales—seven hundred miles away from New Orleans—responded to and made sense of the massive disaster...