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,...
"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...14, 1885, 2, https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84026965/1885-05-14/ed-1/seq-2/. Arthur Pritchard's opossum farm in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, attracted visitors in 1889.53"A Possum Farm," The Democrat (Scotland Neck, NC), Dec. 5, 1889, 1, https://newspapers.digitalnc.org/lccn/sn92073907/1889-12-05/ed-1/seq-1/. With...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
..."the cultural system of ideas about social and linguistic relationships, together with their loading of moral and political interests."5Judith T. Irvine, "When Talk Isn't Cheap: Language and Political Economy," American...
African Americans in Atlanta: Community Building in a New South City
...Clark, Spelman, Morehouse, and Morris Brown colleges and Atlanta University. Atlanta had become a regional center for Black higher education. When Booker T. Washington delivered his "Atlanta Compromise" speech at...
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...
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...
Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta's Public Spaces
...new memories based on Atlanta's LGBTQ past. Watch video of Memory Flash courtesy of the G Channel. Map of John Q discursive memorial sites, Atlanta, Georgia, 2010. Printable version. Click...
Collaborative Atlanta Studies Website Gathers Original Scholarship, Research, and Projects on Atlanta
...bring together research projects, resources, and information about the Atlanta metro region and inspire new scholarship. Atlanta Studies (www.AtlantaStudies.org), which launched Feb. 16, is an open-access online publication that features...
Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, and Biotechnology
...live below the poverty level, a number almost double the US average. When compared to other southern cities, the Memphis poverty rate of 23.5 percent is the same as Atlanta's...