Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black
...W. Leak et al. vs. Seaboard Airline and Southern Railroad." Railroad Station, Manchester, Georgia, May 1938. Photograph by John Vachon. Courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division,...
DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
...entomologist ran notices that DDT "might have a deadly effect on Georgia's bee industry."42"Use Care with DDT, Farmers Are Warned," Atlanta Journal, August 1, 1945. Atlanta papers reported complaints of...
Ungesund: Yellow Fever, the Antebellum Gulf South, and German Immigration
...Ways (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1996), 10. Historians have long noted the significance of Duden's Missouri boosterism,57Robert Frizell, Independent Immigrants: A Settlement of Hanoverian Germans in Western Missouri (Columbia:...
African American Community Building in Atlanta: A Guide to the Study of Race in America
...of the Appalachian chain supports the geographical and economic framework within which race can fruitfully be studied. Bi-racial and Bi-ethnic Atlanta Until recent decades, Atlanta's population, like that of the...
The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape
...landscape. He considered Virginia's Eastern Shore "decidedly Deep Southern." Its landscape, structures, and their spatial arrangements made the region more like Georgia or Tidewater Virginia than Pennsylvania or even its...
Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters
...Atlanta, Georgia At one time, Atlanta offered the Piedmont, Thunderbird, Bankhead, Stewart, Fulton Boulevard, Bolton, and Starlight drive-ins. Now only the Starlight remains, one of seven operational Georgia drive-ins. Among...
Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
...site, Savannah, Georgia, 1907. Courtesy of Georgia Historical Society Archives. A 1907 plat labeled as the "Plan of the lands of the Agricultural and Mechanical Association [of Georgia] old Ten...
Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...topical ballads and crossover dance numbers such as "Little Liza Jane." While anglophone black string band and folk blues traditions have not thrived in south Louisiana, all evidence indicates that...
Marching for Gay Rights in Atlanta, 1971: An Excerpt from A Night at the Sweet Gum Head
...be accepted, or at least tolerated. Atlanta Gay Rights Alliance and others leading the Pride parade, Atlanta, Georgia, June 27, 1977. Atlanta-Journal Constitution courtesy of Georgia State University Library. Even...
Global Lives, Local Struggles: Latin American Immigrants in Atlanta
...increasing rates of Latin American immigration to the Atlanta metropolitan area Part 3: Transnational migrant circuits between Atlanta and localities in Mexico and Central America Part 4: Situating Chamblee and Doraville as...