Resegregated Spaces: The Schools-to-Prisons Pipeline
...and from 1964 to 1975, worked as a field representative for the American Friends Service Committee on issues of voter registration, school desegregation, and economic development in the US South....
How I Shed My Skin
...the premise" (79). Though Grimsley remembers hearing these jokes in many places—"at a country store or a service station, places where men talked to other men" (79)—he recalls local churches...
Segregation's Habits and Horrors: The Photographs of O. N. Pruitt
...and other Kodaks. Many of these photographers owned their own studios or made photographs for local publications and other purposes. Their portraits and photographs of street scenes, church services, rural...
Anniversary
Early, the city's empty, almost soundless, still. The air has a photograph's grain, a mist that's still deciding whether to rise or fall, and again, we're walking down Dexter, drawn...
"Rights Still Being Righted": Scottsboro Eighty Years Later
...school teacher from Chicago; the local Jackson County, Alabama, Commission Chair; the state of Alabama’s tourism director; and nearly one hundred fifty more. Each person had a compelling reason for...
Public School Politics: A Review of The End of Consensus
...(42, 47). As the numbers and voices of newer residents surpassed those of long-time residents, the diversity policy long understood as "fair and beneficial to children of all backgrounds" became...
St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History
...St. Augustine, Florida, stands the "old slave market," an open-air pavilion where enslaved Africans were bought and sold (Figures 1–3). Since its construction in the early nineteenth century, the waterfront...
Transcript: Interview with Jim Bunkley
...did you start playing guitar? Jim Bunkley: I came up, my brothers had one, and me and my sister used to get up on a chair because we couldn’t hold...
Artist Repertoire Index
...Gal Blues Come From Texas Jack of Diamonds Good Morning, Lil School Girl Hard Luck Blues The Howling Wolf Oh, Red Rocking Chair Blues Segregation Blues So Sweet Them Greasy...
Art, Diaspora, and Identity: The John Biggers Papers
...one, adding thanks for "inspiring blackness as a true meaning towards creative expression."7Curtis Watson, Jr. to John Biggers, March 1978, and Al Blair to John Biggers, March 1978, John Biggers...