Gordon Parks at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
...Restraints: Open and Hidden" however, these seemingly prosaic images prompted threats and persecution from white townspeople as well as local officials, and cost one family member her job. The calm...
"The Choctaw Miracle": A Review of Katherine Osburn's Choctaw Resurgence in Mississippi
...extract themselves from the heavy hand of BIA officials. By wisely investing federal funds, they launched the "Choctaw Miracle." Today, the Mississippi Choctaws are among the most successful of Indian...
Hillbilly Records, Zulu Yodels, and the Sounds of a Global South
Presentation Part 2: Nunn discusses how Rodgers’ music was appropriated and recontextualized in South Africa and Kenya in the 1930’s and 1940’s Part 3: Erich Nunn, Selected questions and answers About the...
Retelling Virginia's Migration History
...“negro.” This official action during the Jim Crow era resulted in the flight of many of the state’s Native Americans. Debra H. Rodman, Exhibition guest book, Library of Virginia,...
States' Rights Resurgent: The Attack on the Voting Rights Act
...Education, which declared that segregation—separate and unequal—was unconstitutional. In the era of massive white resistance to court-ordered desegregation, white political officials justified their actions on the basis of states' rights...
A City Divided
...the hopes that the black populace would follow. They organized meetings between white political leadership and school and African Methodist Episcopal Church officials. They offered cash. They offered land. And...
Public School Politics: A Review of The End of Consensus
...district—would ultimately fade as public officials, business leaders, and area residents "generally supported the board's policies" and approved the schools' performance through the 1980s and into 1990s (22). However, as...
Taming Southern Waters: Christopher J. Manganiello’s Southern Water, Southern Power
...is deeply intertwined with political, social, and economic history. He observes that conversations about recreation opportunities at new dams after World War II "among leisure-seekers, state planners, elected officials, and...
The Supreme Court Is Overturning Brown v. Board of Education
...in education—discrimination that prevailed, with official approval, for the first 165 years of this Nation’s constitutional history,” he wrote. “That governmental interest substantially outweighs whatever burden denial of tax benefits...
Wanted eLove: Queer Square Spaces and the Revolution in Digital Intimacy
...who might be made cloudy. We find this early thinking replicated from 1908 through the official Homophile years of activism beginning in the 1950s, beyond groups like the Gay Liberation...