Selma Bridge: Always Under Construction
...McGrew, "Discrimination Still Alive, Jackson Says," Montgomery Advertiser, March 10, 2003. In 2005, the Bridge Crossing celebrated "Invisible Giants," unsung worthies who tilled the grassroots and filled the ranks of...
The Bulletin—October 2, 2012
The Bulletin compiles news from in and around the US South. We hope these posts will provide space for lively discussion and debate regarding issues of importance to those living...
African Americans in Atlanta: Community Building in a New South City
...the United States. Along Auburn Avenue in the Fourth Ward on the east side, where most of Atlanta's Black elite lived, a new stage of enterprise unfolded. An African American...
Shades of Violence: Jim Crow Justice and Black Resistance in the Depression-Era South
...Live, chained him to a tree and beat him with a rubber hose before charging him with vagrancy when he refused to confess to the crime. He estimated that lawmen...
"In the Neighborhood": Towards a Human Geography of US Slave Society
...slaves' mobility and social space. Yet slaveholders had to live with slave mobility. Enslaved teamsters carted cotton and provisions between plantation and town, usually without supervision, for days at a...
Shadows along the Waccamaw
...Dan Albergotti lived in St. Matthews until age four, when his family moved to Florence. Albergotti currently directs the creative writing program at Coastal Carolina University in Conway. He earned...
Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta's Public Spaces
...were born before or during World War II and lived in Atlanta or the US South during most of their adulthood or at least prior to the late 1960s. The...
Rosa’s Log Cabin Quilt [ca 1880]
...alternating pieces of two different brown prints, and the fabric on the back is a lively printed stripe. The lines of quilting stitches simply outline the pieced "logs." Many of...
Bioregional Approach to Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta
...the Mississippi and the Yazoo Rivers. The early European accounts customarily claimed that the Indians encountered in the South lived in harmony with their natural surroundings. Whether this was true...
From Raw Cotton to Cloth
...the lives of hundreds of thousands of southern workers over several generations. Photo Essay and Video: The Process of Making Cloth This short video follows the process of making unfinished...