African American Suburban Development in Atlanta
...primarily through new home construction during the post war period Part 4: Dr. Wiese refers to postwar growth on Atlanta’s west side to illustrate how self-contained Black neighborhoods emerged Part 5: Dr....
Iconoclasm and the Confederacy: The Challenge of White Supremacy in the Memorial Landscape
...ethnic politics in the United States, is the author of The New Black Politician: Cory Booker, Newark, and Post-Racial America (New York: New York University Press, 2012). Daniel A. Pollock, a longtime resident...
"Aint that Something?"
...© Robert Gipe, 2015. Originally published in Trampoline (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2015), 1, 58. This material is used by permission of Ohio University Press, www.ohioswallow.com. "I had had my...
Jake Adam York Interviews Sandra Beasley
...was a slow ride, and I made him hold my purse. On the way home he said We should do this again sometime though we both knew it would never happen...
Desegregation, Delaware, and Civil Rights Liberalism: A Review of Brett Gadsden's Between North and South
...North: Black Freedom Struggles Outside the South, 1940–1980 (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003); John Dittmer, Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1995)....
Ten Dollars and a Bus Ticket
...lived before prison, with no new defenses or support against that environment. Shannon Brockman in his Foundry room, Ten Dollars and a Bus Ticket, 2009. Two factors significantly help ex-inmates...
Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project: Remembering Ancestors
...twenty years local groups in several US cities have conducted African ancestral remembrance ceremonies marking Middle Passage sites.3These cities include New York, New York, New Orleans, Louisiana, Hampton, Virginia, Oakland,...
Struggle Against Disease and Discrimination: The Jesse Peel Papers
...are featured on both the Southern Spaces and MARBL blogs. Hope, Southern Voice, November 9, 1995. Sketch of the Hope monument. Jesse R. Peel Papers, LGBT Collections, MARBL, Emory University....
Family Forestry in Twiggs County, Georgia / Live in Macon at the Douglass Theatre
...number one on Billboard's Pop charts and included "Ramblin' Man" and "Jessica." Leavell recorded two more albums before the Allmans disbanded. Emerging from the break-up with his rock/jazz/blues fusion group...
"The Ohio River Was Not the River Jordan": A Review of Matthew Salafia's Slavery's Borderland
...booming new market economy on the Ohio River Valley in the 1820s and 1830s, spurred primarily, Salafia notes, by the emergence of steamboats. This rapidly expanding river trade provided new...