"It's Being Black and Poor": Race, Class, and Desegregation at Pebblebrook High
...Roberts, Lessons from Little Rock (Little Rock: Butler Center Books, 2009), 30. Raised by a college-educated store clerk and a brick-mason, Carlotta Walls LaNier came from a family of resources...
Dancing Around the "Glaring Light of Television": Black Teen Dance Shows in the South
...attempt to integrate Little Rock's Central High School, Little Rock, Arkansas, September 4, 1957. Photograph by Will Counts. Courtesy of Matthew F. Delmont. Changes to the structure of public life took...
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...
The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape
...the Eastern Shore Game Protective Association and gave it authority to license non-resident hunters and to employ wardens to enforce game laws. In 1900, the General Assembly authorized the county...
The Color of Democracy: A Japanese Public Health Official’s Reconnaissance Trip to the US South
...720, box 85, series 1.5, RG 5, John D. Rockefeller III Papers, Rockefeller Archive Center, Sleepy Hollow, New York (hereafter, RAC); Deborah Oakley, “The Development of Population Policy in Japan,...
Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville
...to prevent nine black students from enrolling at all-white Central High School in Little Rock. Before that conflict ended, the President of the United States would have to nationalize the...
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...
New Patterns of Segregation: Latino and African American Students in Metro Atlanta High Schools
...number of jobs more than tripling between 1980 and 2000. The crucial characteristic of Atlanta's economy is its industrial diversity, with no one sector dominating employment.2M.L Owens and M.J. Rich,...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...and place-identity of Buenaventura Lakes: I was looking at homes with the realtor and found a house at the corner of Lakeside and Anhinga that I really liked. I heard...
"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...Black woman's catching fifteen opossums in Muscogee County, Georgia, in 1877.31"Foraging on our Exchanges," The LaGrange (GA) Reporter, Oct. 11, 1877, 2, https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn82015287/1877-10-11/ed-1/seq-2/#date1=10%2F11%2F1877&city=LaGrange&date2=10%2F11%2F1877&words=&searchType=advanced¬text=&index=2&sequence=0&proxdistance=5&rows=12&ortext=&proxtext=&andtext=&page=1. Enslavers may have tolerated—and on occasion, celebrated—antebellum...