Lynching and Local History: A Review of Troubled Ground
...county had drawn national attention when a mob lynched James and Harrison Gillespie (of the same Gillespie family), aged eleven and thirteen, for allegedly murdering a young white woman as...
Sea Changes in Personhood
...the smallest degree affect white woman who have been naturalized Haytians by Government, nor does it extend to children already born, or that may be born of the said women....
Opening Spaces: On Tolerance and the Possibility for Love
...to a woman for forty years. This professor, however, did at least once sleep with a male student of his in his late twenties.10Stephens-Davidowitz, "How Many American Men Are Gay?"...
Struggle Against Disease and Discrimination: The Jesse Peel Papers
...and designed by Felix de Weldon—the sculptor famous for designing the Marine Corps War Memorial in Washington DC—the planned sculpture depicted a man, woman, and child reaching for a matrix...
Ellipsis
White-blossoming trees In front of the house In Sparta, Georgia, Where they together lived: Free woman of color (black, white, Cherokee), white male slaver, and their children who slept with...
The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion
...the San Antonio Express headline "Anti-American Riot Led by Red Haired Chief of Woman Mob" (184). Through the tensions exposed by the outbreak of typhus, and US public health officials' immediate...
Katrina, One Year Later: Three Perspectives
...go out and photograph. Along the beach and up the lagoons the devastation was severe. One late afternoon I was photographing in the Grand Lagoon subdivision when a woman in...
Returning Home, Saxon Mills
...last shadows, as the people thin, I see a dark woman humming. It could be 1945, or it could be today. She’s headed home, humming some songs she thinks I...
A Mess of Poke
.... . salad . . . ungh. So growls Tony Joe White in his 1969 hit, "Polk Salad Annie," about a notorious woman and a ubiquitous weed. Pokeweed, or poke...
"Holding on to Those Who Can't Be Held": Reenacting a Lynching at Moore's Ford, Georgia
...past two years has played the other murdered woman, the pregnant Dorothy Dorsey, explains that she does this to honor the memory of her own son, who was slain on...