Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project: Remembering Ancestors
...ceremony has been held; N = Ports with neither a marker nor a ceremony. Each MPCPMP ceremony and marker is unique. In our initial presentation to local participants in the...
Bodies and Souls
...feel the challenges of life and complexity of relationships in their own way. In 2006, Mississippi had one of the lowest number of physicians per capita in the nation (177...
End of the Pandemic? A Grassroots Perspective
...the World Health Organization downgraded the coronavirus emergency from a global health pandemic to an "ongoing health crisis," the shift made sense in many ways. Most developed nations have made...
"Looking Back and Moving Forward": The Records of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference at Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library
...Black and Poor Americans records, SCLC records, MARBL, Emory University. SCLC argued that traditional principles and tactics of nonviolent direct action could be successfully brought to bear under any number...
Topeka newspapers
Topeka State Journal, December 5, 1906, "Texans had 'Fun.'" TEXANS HAD 'FUN' Tried to Lynch Negro on Santa Fe Train No. 17 Cowboys Put Rope Around His Neck Three...
Tuscaloosa: Riversong
...bodies in the trees, twirling legless. I sang until morning. I sang, and the white ones were here sniffing an empty breast. They are here but I cannot die. My...
Enchanting the Desert: Visualizing the Production of Space at the Grand Canyon
Presentation Question and Answer Session About the Speaker Nicholas Bauch is assistant professor of GeoHumanities and director of the Experimental Geography Studio at the University of Oklahoma. In addition to...
On Native Ground: Indigenous Presences and Countercolonial Strategies in Southern Narratives of Captivity, Removal, and Repossession
...in which Kazin never, by "Native," means American Indian writing from any region of the Americas. My new book project, On Native Southern Ground, sets out to demonstrate that the...
A Mind To Stay Here: Closing Conference Comments on Southern Exceptionalism
...periodicals. He has also been a participant in and writer for many projects or conferences dealing with desegregation and civil rights. About this Video This video of John Egerton was...
Shaping a Southern Soundscape
...and power and has affected efforts to alleviate racial and class inequality for generations. What more, I sometimes wonder, is there to say? Among the many contributions of Karl Hagstrom...