Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters
...Delaware River from Philadelphia, subsequent drive-ins were constructed on large tracts of land on the outskirts of residential and commercial development. As Bruce Lonnee, a senior development planner for Athens/Clarke...
Low-Wage Legacies, Race, and the Golden Chicken in Mississippi: Where Contemporary Immigration Meets African American Labor History
...of the US South (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2009); Ricardo B. Contreras, "The Nuevo South Action Research Collaborative: A Model of Community Engagement and Service-learning in Eastern North Carolina...
"Within Thy Circling Pow'r I Stand": Immersive Video from Sacred Harp's Hollow Square
...cameras into a series of 360-degree videos.3Janko Roettgers, "Google Is Shutting Down Its Jump VR Video Program," Variety (blog), May 18, 2019, https://variety.com/2019/digital/news/google-jump-shutting-down-1203219306/. We used the Sennheiser Ambeo VR microphone...
Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville
...appealed, but no delay was permitted. (Two years later, the US Supreme Court would give its tacit consent to the Nashville "stair-step" plan; by then, it had become a model...
African Americans in Atlanta: Adrienne Herndon, an Uncommon Woman
...to portray all the heroic feminine characters of Shakespeare." (Boston Traveler, January 25, 1904). From her childhood in Savannah, through her drama studies in Boston and New York, Adrienne held...
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...
Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
...news director not only quoted from Delaney in the coverage but also showed film footage of the event and described the group's plans to "quit doing business" with several downtown...
"Out Yonder on the Road": Working Class Self-Representation and the 1939 Roadside Demonstration in Southeast Missouri
...forced the creation of Delmo in the first place, saying that if they were forced out "it's going to be out yonder on the road—another highway demonstration."57W. Wilder Towle, "Delmo...
Dancing Around the "Glaring Light of Television": Black Teen Dance Shows in the South
...their dance steps on The Mitch Thomas Show, Wilmington, Delaware, ca. 1956–57. Screenshot from Black Philadelphia Memories, directed by Trudi Brown (WHYY-TV12, 1999). Screenshot courtesy of Matthew F. Delmont, The Nicest...
Southern Spaces: A Partial History
...journey of discovery seeking one thing, and instead come upon something completely different. I thought this was a wonderful and wholly delightful outcome. While Southern Spaces now counts its start...