Birth Right
...1989, Alabama had one of the highest rates of rural hospital closings in the nation.2Health Care Information Resources Group for the American Hospital Association. (March 1994). Hospital Closures 1980-1993: A...
LiFT Art Salon: Hammonds House II
...well as class and color lines, I look for imagined black futures in archival holdings. In addition to my research, I work as an assistant curator for the African American...
Queering Southern Gospel: A Review of Douglas Harrison's Then Sings My Soul
...turns a musicologist, historian, sociologist, psychologist, ethnographer, and "participant-fan" (17). Then Sings My Soul draws upon Harrison's immersion in southern gospel culture since his childhood, as well as information he...
Memorializing the Freedom Riders
...definitive account of these protests.1Raymond Arsenault, Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice, Pivotal Moments in American History. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. Ninety miles southwest of...
States' Rights Resurgent: The Attack on the Voting Rights Act
...30, 2013. Cartoon by Mike Luckovich. Republished by permission of Mike Luckovich. The opinion ignored the fact that Congress actually developed thousands of pages of testimony, data, and information providing...
Imagining Southern Bodies: A Review of Sex, Sickness, and Slavery
...how antebellum southern physicians—white males all—used information about their patients to advance their own professional and sectional political agendas.1Sadly, Professor Weiner died before the book was completed. Mazie Hough, assistant...
Anniversary
Readings Jake Adam York reads the poem "Anniversary." Poem text. Jake Adam York reads the poem "Consolation." Poem text. Jake Adam York reads the poem "Darkly." Poem text. Jake Adam...
Reframing Resistance: A Review of Freedom Now!
...of the 'place' of the photographs in the moment and in the history of the movement, interpreting what information rests within the frame of a given photograph and acknowledging that...
Glimpsing Andalusia in the O'Connor-Hester Letters
...for them, and their ensnarement, if successful, is followed by an emancipatory revelation. As Claire Katz observes, "O'Connor as narrator plays the role of scourge."5Katz, Claire. "O'Connor's Rage of Vision." American...
Words Like a Fire: MARBL's Kennedy and Sons Collection
...Kennedy, Jr.'s posters and artists' books memorialize and celebrate African American history and culture. His work, housed in the Kennedy & Sons Collection in Emory's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book...