Crisis of the New Majority: Low-Income Students in the South's Public Schools
...persons with an annual income of $22,231 or less was eligible for free lunch; a student with an annual family income of $31,765 or less was eligible for reduced-price lunch....
Brown, Black, and White in Texas
...success that the black freedom struggle enjoyed in the 1960s and that Mexican Americans coveted" (10). Nevertheless, blacks and Mexican Americans forged stronger alliances during this period—even if sustained solidarity...
Navigating Jim Crow: A Review of Adolph L. Reed's The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
...indignation." 3Reed, 13. The pervasive but varying conditions of white supremacy meant that the places where Black people could be their own free selves, away from everyday racial dangers and...
Sài Gòn to Nashville: A Refugee Journey
...legal rights and protections. They saw the right to vote as the most valuable privilege of gaining citizenship, a freedom they were not afforded under Việt Nam’s communist regime. The...
Anniversary
...riots where the Greyhound station's been made a museum of itself, what was reflected now etched on the windows, the froth of clubs and chains, even rakes, over the Freedom...
"Closest to Everlastin'": Ozark Agricultural Biodiversity and Subsistence Traditions
...approximately a month earlier, showed me the coop for her bantam fan-tail chickens, and led me down into the cellar. The cellar contained a woodstove, an enormous freezer stocked with...
Seneca Quarry
...couldn't pay back. The quarry's bankruptcy in 1876 helped bring down the Freedman's Bank, wiping out the savings of some 400,000 freed slaves and exacerbating poverty among African Americans for...
Voting Rights, the Supreme Court, and the Persistence of Southern History
...in a thousand and one different ways to maintain barriers to black voting and black political power. While professing that all adult persons were free to register and vote, local...
Southern Spaces Recommends, October 2020
...in Georgia, which is available to watch for free. https://vimeo.com/470999167 Trailer for Suppressed: The Fight to Vote, July 23, 2019. Trailer by Brave New Films. Courtesy of Brave New Films....
An Unflinching Look: An Interview with Photographer Benjamin Dimmitt
...so many corpses that you can't move freely. Someone who wrote about my project wrote that it reminded him of a Civil War battlefield with corpses everywhere. And this was...