Hearing the Call: The Cultural and Spiritual Journey of Rosemary McCombs Maxey
...say there are five thousand Creek speakers left, but nobody seems to know where that number comes from, and many suggest there are only a few hundred speakers, some even far fewer....
Flatlands in the Outlands: Photographs from the Delta and Bayou
...a few. A more recent generation of photographers, working during the 1990s and 2000s, continue to produce evocative images rich in narrative depth. This fall the Atlanta Creative Photography festival...
Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia
...SECTION 1. The United States shall create a series of commons communities, each designed to include a specified number of households within a larger landscape that will be managed by...
Voting Rights, the Supreme Court, and the Persistence of Southern History
...monumental impact on the voting rights of African Americans and on the nation's faith in its democratic promise. Since 1965 Section 5 has required the states of Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana,...
Per Capita Income and Percentage of Residents Living Below the Poverty Line in Georgia Counties in the Lower Chattahoochee Region
Listed below are the poverty line percentages and per capita income figures for the fourteen Georgia counties in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley. With the exception of Harris and Chattahoochee counties...
The Bulletin—April 24, 2013
...in and intellectually engaging with the US South. In Atlanta, two historic African American churches potentially stand in the way of plans to build a new, billion-dollar football stadium for...
Baptists and Witches: Multiple Jurisdictions in a Muskogee Creek Story
...Confederacy Be Sung Back Together?" "Summer Water and Shirley" By Durango Mendoza Originally published in Prairie Schooner, volume XL, number 3 (Fall 1966) It was in the summer that had...
The Vanished World of the New Orleans Longshoreman
...ship's deck, did not enter service until 1998. Although the net value of shipping continued to increase during this period due to trade in grain and petroleum, the number of...
Brown, Black, and White in Texas
...rights struggles occurred simultaneously. Despite repeated calls for cooperation and a number of examples of interethnic alliances, African Americans and Mexican Americans ultimately 'fought their own battles'" (2). Behnken examines...
Ablaze: The 1849 White Supremacist Attack on the Pendleton Post Office
...high number but nothing like comparative statistics in the central or southern parts of the state.59For a good understanding of these numbers, see Megginson, African American Life, 8. Consider how...