Low Country Travelers: An African American Car Club of Charleston County, South Carolina
...construction of bridges across the Santee River to the north and the Cooper River to Charleston in the 1920s. Today, the town’s largely white population numbers around 450. Conversely, the...
Changing Places, Changing Lives
...white southerners were up to their ears in a market system that drew its strength and vitality from a worldwide demand for cotton. Cotton and capital functioned as the dual...
Along the Ulcofauhatche: Of Sorrow Songs and "Dried Indian Creek"
...confidence. Sometimes it is faith in life, sometimes a faith in death, sometimes assurance of boundless justice in some fair world beyond. (W.E.B. DuBois, "Of the Sorrow Songs," The Souls...
Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project: Remembering Ancestors
...Savannah, or New York, or Providence, or the Ohio River, or better still, on the banks of the Mississippi. —Toni Morrison1Toni Morrison, "A Bench by the Road," World Journal of...
End of the Pandemic? A Grassroots Perspective
...the World Health Organization downgraded the coronavirus emergency from a global health pandemic to an "ongoing health crisis," the shift made sense in many ways. Most developed nations have made...
Crosses, Flowers, and Asphalt: Roadside Memorials in the US South
...dirt track racers defying death in stripped-down vehicles with high performance engines, the glitz and product promotion of modern day NASCAR, and the window-tinted, stretch-limo world of rap culture. Country...
Walt Whitman in Alabama
...when he couldn't bring some Southron home. I see him there remembering his poems, his back to the door, singing out to the garden of the world, the tropical spring...
Making History
...What I know of sacrifice is the tin spoons that always fall into my dorm room radiator. Cereal:spoon. Ice milk:spoon. The world is lousy with spoons. The world is lousy...
Artist Repertoire Index
...the Whole World Shaking Sitting Here Looking 1000 Miles Away That’s All Right Mama True Love is Hard To Find Two Trains Running Walking Through the Park Hodge, Eddie B....
The Black Civil Rights Movement on the Border
...presented in its introduction with the aims and the substance of the book. For instance, Guzmán clearly assumes that the civil rights movement occurred after World War II, an assumption...