"Looking Back and Moving Forward": The Records of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference at Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library
...circa 1970s. Courtesy of SCLC records, MARBL, Emory University. Among the SCLC staffers represented in the collection is Fred Taylor, who worked for the organization for nearly forty years with...
Plantation Romances and Slave Narratives: Symbiotic Genres
...scenes of troubling revolution. Near its end, Swallow Barn tells the story of the rebellious slave Ned. After a long period of incorrigible behavior, he finally becomes a loyal defender...
In Memory Hill Cemetery
...Greek revival graves near the center toward the back of the cemetery, through the light skinned white-Blacks on the near side of the cemetery road, a carriage's width I must...
Putting up Beans
...filled with great leaves of tobacco, green as beans. Though soon to be gold and brown cured. Now nowhere near Winston or Salems. Not even close to American Spirit. More...
Flit Lit in the Sweet Sunny South
...of "travel memoirs," Thompson seems to have arrived in the South with much of his opinion fixed, many of his storylines nearly set in stone. I've been amused in recent...
Birdhouses
...home visiting my family in South Carolina. Walking near a grapevine that my father had planted along a wire fence, I noticed that the vine's lush leaves had ensconced a...
"The Choctaw Miracle": A Review of Katherine Osburn's Choctaw Resurgence in Mississippi
...in modern-day Mississippi. Along the way, they faced the nearly impossible challenges of pleasing segregationist whites, asserting their own distinctiveness, and keeping black Mississippians at a distance. The 1827 Anthony...
The Bulletin—June 19, 2013
...education, health care, and social programs, as well as proposed voter ID laws. Nearly five hundred protestors have been arrested so far. Though Governor Pat McCrory has characterized protests as "fueled by...
Beyond Fairyland: Writing and Curating Queer Miami
...Welcome to Fairyland: Queer Miami Before 1940 (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 2017), 24, 5, 8. Capó explores how influential powerbrokers and everyday people contributed to the process of transforming "Miami...
Dirty Little Story
...She now lives near Iuka, Mississippi. This essay is courtesy of Kings Features Syndicate. Johnson is the author of several books, including Enchanted Evening Barbie and the Second Coming (2010)....