Sacred Harp, "Poland Style"
...band director stationed at Fort McPherson, Georgia—explicitly framed his singing school as teaching the style of Sacred Harp singing practiced in West Georgia in the early 1970s. Other singing teachers...
Art, Diaspora, and Identity: The John Biggers Papers
...celebration of Biggers's thirtieth anniversary at TSU, a number of former students wrote to express gratitude to their teacher. "Thanks for being a guiding light for young black artists," wrote...
The Bulletin—August 21, 2012
...lamb, chicken, and catfish for federal food nutrition assistance programs, including food banks and school lunch and breakfast programs. This announcment is welcome news for farmers and ranchers across the...
Along the Ulcofauhatche: Of Sorrow Songs and "Dried Indian Creek"
...know of only one white-authored account. The June 4, 1893, Atlanta Constitution reports that a Mr. W.D. Boggus of Covington has a number of curiosities on display in his place...
Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project: Remembering Ancestors
...the United States. In some cases, this has required a reassessment of the popular narrative and perceptions. For instance, Jamestown, Virginia, which is routinely identified in schoolbooks as the place...
The South as Foil: A Review of This Is Not Dixie
...schools, and assert dominance.4In making this argument Campney critiques Nicole Etcheson, Bleeding Kansas: Contested Liberty in the Civil War Era (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2004), 229 and Robert G....
Call for Submissions: Spatial Justice
...in Metro Atlanta High Schools." Southern Spaces, January 19, 2009, https://southernspaces.org/2009/new-patterns-segregation-latino-and-african-american-students-metro-atlanta-high-schools. Weber, Lynn. "No Place To Be Displaced: Katrina Response and the Deep South's Political Economy." Southern Spaces, August 17, 2012, https://southernspaces.org/2012/no-place-be-displaced-katrina-response-and-deep-souths-political-economy....
When the Border Crossed Me
...of helpers I'd found for one or two days a week earlier in the summer—three high school students and occasionally one of their grandmas who drove them to the farm—had...
The US South and the 2008 Election
...southern rhetoric of states rights. Sunbelt residents who moved to the expanding suburbs favored low taxes, opposed unions and school desegregation. These views and others coalesced into an anti-federal government...
"Possum on Terrace": A Typed Manuscript from John Egerton on Journalist Johnny Popham
John Egerton, PDF of "Possum on Terrace," 1987. In 1985, "The Southern War Correspondents and Camp Followers Association" and "The Popham Seminar" held a joint meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, to...