"It's Being Black and Poor": Race, Class, and Desegregation at Pebblebrook High
Introduction Virginia Ward's yearbook photo, Pebblebrook High School, 1970. Virginia Ward is not a small woman, but the fineness of her hands and the way her gray curls sweep around...
"Out Yonder on the Road": Working Class Self-Representation and the 1939 Roadside Demonstration in Southeast Missouri
...find that "good place."28Aubrey Williams to FDR, January 19, 1939, Folder "Tenant Farming, 1939-1944," Box 1, Official File 1650, FDR. A Red Cross official informed Missouri Governor Lloyd Stark that...
Retelling Virginia's Migration History
...Richmond, Virginia, 1925. Courtesy of the Library of Virginia. “The Land We Live In” begins with Virginian icons John Smith and Pocahontas, creating a presence for Native Americans whose movements...
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
...fifteen or sixteen years old, but most were in their late teens or early twenties. There were several mother-daughter pairs in the mill, and a number of the women working...
Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...pickup sites were racially segregated, a good number of them were racially mixed, especially in the late 1990s and beyond. Pickup sites in the Buford Highway corridor and the northern...
Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition
...around here. . ."6Rose, Chris. "Badges of honor: Part historic preservation, part act of defiance, the spray-painted markings of Katrina rescue workers remain prominently displayed on many reoccupied New Orleans...
Editors
...to Distributed Digital Preservation (Educopia Institute, 2010), and Aligning National Approaches to Digital Preservation (Educopia Institute, 2012). Barbara Ellen Smith Professor Emerita of Women's and Gender Studies Department of Sociology Virginia Tech...
Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery: From Slavery to Segregation
...slave who lived most of her life on what is now patriotic ground. Arlington National Cemetery Grave Sites, Arlington, Virginia, July 2017. Photograph by Will Gallagher. © Will Gallagher. Although...
Southern Spaces: A Partial History
...Spaces would become a site for training graduate students in digital publishing. And that, where possible, we would collaborate with small non-profit organizations engaged in regional research and education that...
Mapping the Muggleheads: New Orleans and the Marijuana Menace, 1920–1930
...History of Marihuana Prohibition in the United States (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1974). For instance, although Bonnie and Whitebread note New Orleans's influential role in fostering marijuana menace ideology,...