Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans
...There have been a lot of changes in the cityscape since the New Orleans guide was first released. Upriver from the French Quarter the skyline has become mini-Manhattanized, anchored by...
When the Border Crossed Me
...freedom to stay in place and their need to leave home to keep their farm alive. I was a beginning farmer hiring seasoned agriculturalists from another country to help make...
Editorial Style Guide
...Freedom Ride asks, "What color is an immigrant?" Use a colon after formal introductory phrases such as thus or the following, or for quotations longer than a sentence. As for...
Born In Violent Conquest: A Review of Jacksonland
...replacement with white settlers (and, in the South, their black slaves). The United States could secure freedom and economic opportunity for its white citizens only by expelling indigenous communities. That...
White Flight: The Strategies, Ideology, and Legacy of Segregationists in Atlanta
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A Review of Lawrence N. Powell's The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans
...their city, he argues, the people making the choices were a mixture of Europeans, African and creole slaves, free blacks, and Native Americans. These groups lived together in New Orleans...
The Change
...make camp at Qualla Boundary and the Oconaluftee would be free of tourists and filled with snow and those of us who held out forever and had no...
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...
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...
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...