Preserving the Memory of Ybor City, Florida
...Kennedy, a folklorist born in Jacksonville in 1916. Kennedy led the second WPA visit to Ybor, part of a larger Florida trip that included Cross City and Jacksonville, in August...
Low-Wage Legacies, Race, and the Golden Chicken in Mississippi: Where Contemporary Immigration Meets African American Labor History
...that white workers increasingly found new opportunities elsewhere, chicken plants faced an ever mounting need for cheap labor. Mississipi's method, pamphlet, n.d. Courtesy of the Mississippi Department of Archives and...
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...advanced in civilization, and marking a new era in the progressive discoveries of man!!," the pamphlet states that "the world must now rank [Symmes] with Columbus and Galileo" (3). The...
Encountering COVID
...was no help. And the state system was not equipped to handle the massive number of unemployment insurance claims. Before COVID, we usually had about 800 or so claims a...
Counterblast: How the Atlanta Temple Bombing Strengthened the Civil Rights Cause
...hours later, in Jacksonville, Florida, the Jewish Community Center survived a similar bomb attack.5Southern Jewish Weekly, May 2, 1958; Richmond Afro-American, May 3, 1958. Synagogues across the South immediately intensified...
Atlanta's Charis Books and More: Histories of a Feminist Space
...were few established businesses, mainstream organizations or tradition-minded civic leaders around. There were, however, plenty of cheap rental properties available and an "anything is possible" view of the future.6According to...
"This is Not Dixie:" The Imagined South, the Kansas Free State Narrative, and the Rhetoric of Racist Violence
...The total number of violent incidents identified in the sample undoubtedly represents only a fraction of those which actually transpired.16For an analysis of racist violence in Kansas, see Brent MacDonald...
Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion
...turns out, the transfer of McDonald's son to Dinsmoor's care was not unique. In the decades following the US Revolution, a number of American Indian women and men and elite US whites...
Global Lives, Local Struggles: Latin American Immigrants in Atlanta
Photograph of Rosa, Miguel and their son. Global Lives, Local Struggles (Documentary footage used in this essay was provided by William Brown, Director, Living Across Borders.) Part 2: Dr. Odem describes...
Editorial Style Guide
...are usually used. number of international unions 8; total number of women: 79 When to spell out numbers Spell out numbers from one through one hundred and approximate numbers. It...