Memorializing the Freedom Riders
...and St. Louis to New Orleans and St. Petersburg, Florida, from April to December 1961. Raymond Arsenault's 2006 book, Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice, gives the...
Southern Spaces Recommends
...is originally from Panama City, Florida. In the play a group of gay characters ponder how "we need our community, we need our history. How else can we teach the...
Catfish Dream: An African American Vision in the Delta
Introduction The catfish didn't miss the current. They'd never known it. They lapped the pond all day like pace cars. At feeding time, they thrashed for their share of pellets....
Elegy for the Native Guards
Poem Elegy for the Native Guards Now that the salt of their blood Stiffens the saltier oblivion of the sea . . . —Allen Tate We leave Gulfport at noon;...
Longleaf, Far as the Eye Can See: A New Vision of North America's Richest Forest
...to young seedlings by wild hogs and the destructive effects of naval stores production. A manageable fire in a regularly burned longleaf area, Blackwater River State Forest, Milton, Florida. Photograph...
A Mind To Stay Here: Closing Conference Comments on Southern Exceptionalism
...Public Information for the University of South Florida. He was a staff writer for Southern Education Report, 1965–1969, and for Race Relations Reporter, 1969–1971. In 1971, Egerton began his career...
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Call for Submissions: Music and the US South
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The Save All Quilt [ca. 1880]
...relatively close together when cutting the fabric, but the claim of "no waste in material" is not entirely accurate. Making a quilt can express thrift in a number of ways,...
Paul's Crazy Quilt [ca 1875 and ca 1915]
...would likely have made this number if she had envisioned this project from the start. Finally, although red fabrics appear in both the star and the crazy blocks, there is...