Undoing the Voting Rights Act
...Showcased its 'Textualist' Double Standard on Voting Rights," Washington Post, July 1, 2021, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/07/01/supreme-court-alito-voting-rights-act/. President Lyndon B. Johnson meets with Martin Luther King, Jr., at the signing of the Voting...
Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery: From Slavery to Segregation
...the South at between 10 and 12 percent in 1860, although the product of mixed-race unions constituted more significant proportions of city dwellers: 39 percent of free blacks and 20...
Consolation
...the trees and lay the needle down gunning through the barricades and ROAD CLOSED signs and up the amputated ramp where the bridge should be, the bridge where you stood...
Making History
...with lentils, flash bombs, lo-fi, hi-speed. Somewhere is a petition I should be signing. Somewhere a parakeet is driving a tractor, and I am missing it. A pair of scissors...
Rosa Snoddy's Handkerchief Quilt [ca 1905]
...made a quilt, unlike any of the others in this collection, from nine identical red bandanna handkerchiefs. The printed handkerchief with its bright color and the agreeable design evokes the...
New Orleans, Louisiana images
New Orleans, Louisiana: Intersection of St. Louis and Royal, French Quarter Signs of the tourist trade are evident in the French Quarter, even in the early morning hours. College Boys,...
Casino, Ponce de Leon Park
Advertisement for Ponce de Leon Park Casino and Ostrich Farm, Atlanta Constitution, 1906. circa 1908 circa 1910 The sign below the circle swing reads: "Ponce de Leon is a private...
Piedmont Blues
...reflects this, meshing traces of gospel, fiddle tunes, blues, country, and ragtime into its rolling, exhuberant sound." --Nick Spitzer Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley has significant links to the...
Stones and Shadows
1. Visiting the Stone The air in the car is thick and still. My father makes a right turn through the cemetery gates, giving me a significant look. I don't...
The Dirt Eaters
Southern Tradition of Eating Dirt Shows Signs of Waning —headline, The New York Times, 2/14/84 tra dition wanes I read from North ern South: D.C. Never ate dirt but I...