Born In Violent Conquest: A Review of Jacksonland
...Cases: The Confrontation of Law and Politics (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1996); Theda Perdue, Cherokee Women: Gender and Culture Change, 1700–1835 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998); Tim Alan Garrison, The...
Cultivating Freedom: A Review of Bobby Smith’s Food Power Politics
...programs to that of the federal Food Stamp Program, and the change in minimum wage laws surrounding farm workers and sharecroppers in the Delta. In the era of “King Cotton,”...
Birdhouses
...bluebird house he'd nailed to the top of a post. The day was overcast, but enough light fell on the house that it caught my eye—such a quiet, cool, and...
An Oyster by Any Other Name
...Pass. The sheer number of oysters in one place was notable, however the history came from the laminated nametags accompanying each sampling of oysters. Rather than numeric codes in fine...
Sacred Harp, "Poland Style"
...and adopt practices long-associated with Sacred Harp singing, yet also seemed to view "tradition" as something that could change, evolve, and develop around Sacred Harp singing in its new European...
Landscapes and Ecologies of the US South: Essays in Eco-Cultural History
...and class as well as geography. The problem was not that nature was not in the picture, but rather in how human relationships with the rest of nature changed and...
Love and Death in Mississippi
...changes Mississippians can make, changes which would make me more comfortable going home to see my mother without fear of being denied any form of service each of my straight...
African American Community Building in Atlanta: A Guide to the Study of Race in America
...South, has been almost exclusively Black and White. Moreover, because Black labor and the racial climate tended to discourage large numbers of immigrants, Atlanta's foreign-born population was only 3% at...
African Americans in Atlanta: Adrienne Herndon, an Uncommon Woman
Adrienne Herndon (1869–1910) Portrait of Adrienne Herndon, date unknown. (c) The Herndon Home. "It is simply inevitable that I should end up on the stage," Adrienne stated in 1904 just...
"Looking Back and Moving Forward": The Records of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference at Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library
...years of the organization can be found either at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change or as part of the Morehouse King Collection at the Robert...