Going South, Coming North: Migration and Union Organizing in Morristown, Tennessee
...Chronicle, October 24, 2006. Worker Rights Board Hearing Organized by Jobs with Justice of East Tennessee, from Morristown: in the air and sun (2007). Jobs with Justice of East Tennessee...
Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...public and semi-public spaces as at least temporarily queer(ed) territory. This marking is how cruising functions not only as a social practice but also as a concept. Through documenting the...
Draining Paradise: A Tour of Salt Creek in St. Petersburg, Florida
...in LA," a classic re-examination of the least "natural" of all places, the Los Angeles River. On the East coast, meanwhile, landscape architect Ann Whiston Spirn has combined activism, teaching...
St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History
...the era of daily food for sale in the waterfront pavilion came to an end.13Harris, ed., "The Public Market Place." The public market anchors the east end of St. Augustine's...
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,...
Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement
...previously all-white schools, although many small, rural school districts in eastern North Carolina resisted until a court order required the admission of a token number of Black children in previously...
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...
Religion and the US South
...Appalachia, into the Deep South states of Georgia, Alabama,and Mississippi, into northern Louisiana and east Texas, and into southern Arkansas and southeastern Oklahoma—creating a Baptist domain within the US South,...
Ablaze: The 1849 White Supremacist Attack on the Pendleton Post Office
...1849. Vague and clumsy references to letters in code and cyphers in his correspondence directed to Barrett made his situation look damning. One newspaper from North Carolina noted that if it...
"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,"...