Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...and scarred man of slight build had just arrived at the day labor hiring hall in Canton, Georgia, after a three-month journey from Guatemala. Terry Easton, Waiting for work. Buford Highway,...
Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
...filmed press conferences and statements from the participants. With protestors outside the gates of the Greenbrier carrying signs denouncing Alabama Governor George Wallace and Mississippi Governor Ross Barnett, the group's...
Spectacles of American Nationalism: The Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama Painting and The Birth of a Nation
...massive frontal assaults against their position east of the city on July 22, 1864. At the center of the combat action rides Federal Major General John A. Logan, the largest...
"Out Yonder on the Road": Working Class Self-Representation and the 1939 Roadside Demonstration in Southeast Missouri
...by Howard Emerson, March 1963, quoted in Howard Emerson, "Sharecropper's Strike, 1939" (Senior honors thesis, Southeast Missouri State University, 1963), 41; "Investigation Concerning the Sharecropper Situation Existing in Southeast Missouri,"...
The Pursuit of Health: Colonialism and Hookworm Eradication in Puerto Rico
...the crucial significance of Puerto Rico in the development of US public health, the place that this campaign occupies in the history of US tropical medicine and international philanthropy has...
All Roads Led from Rome: Facing the History of Cherokee Expulsion
...ferries, etc. delineated correctly and faithfully." The maps were atlases of opportunity for speculators and entrepreneurs. Enterprising Georgians promoted themselves as land appraisers, guides, innkeepers, attorneys, and merchandizers in the...
Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville
...schools also were desegregated that morning—Clemons, south of downtown, and Hattie Cotton, to the northeast—but they had not been listed in the papers and thus drew no sign-waving protesters. Each...
"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...and that southern metal and cotton products would find commercial opportunities in Far Eastern markets.4William H. Taft, "The Winning of the South," Political Issues and Outlooks: Speeches Delivered Between August,...
Scales Intimate and Sprawling: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Geography of Marriage in Virginia
...on whether they lived east or west of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Those still living in long settled counties in eastern Virginia, which had seen a steady flow of men...
Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism
...Comedy Central. Colbert went on to suggest that Cornell West rename his signature book "Race Mattered." And yet, as David A. Hollinger has recently argued, the concept of the postracial gives rise...