Desegregation, Delaware, and Civil Rights Liberalism: A Review of Brett Gadsden's Between North and South
...those activists had insisted on and used so effectively in early decades. The goal of quality education for African American school children and an ethics of equity for all remained...
Anniversary
Readings Jake Adam York reads the poem "Anniversary." Poem text. Jake Adam York reads the poem "Consolation." Poem text. Jake Adam York reads the poem "Darkly." Poem text. Jake Adam...
They Never Witnessed Such a Melodrama
...border state, Kentucky had relatively high rates of racial violence, especially in western and central Kentucky, where African Americans were more highly concentrated than in the eastern counties, and where...
1108 Dynamite Hill
Video https://player.vimeo.com/video/652096254?h=527be50265& Essay Jeff Drew, born in 1951, is a lifelong resident of Birmingham, Alabama's North Smithfield neighborhood. In 2013, following the fiftieth anniversary commemoration of the Birmingham campaign of...
Same-Sex Intimacy in Fiction about Southern Plantations
Same-Sex Intimacy in the Fiction of Southern Plantations Part 2: Bibler refers to Gaines’s novel Of Love and Dust, focusing on how same-sex relations can disrupt plantation hierarchies Part 3:...
Rising Up
Video Community Ideas Station, Excerpt from Rising Up, 2005....
Palomares Bajo
...African American airmen with gloves are shown measuring a house's radioactivity, laundering contaminated uniforms, and shifting barrels full of "hot soil."15Szulc, 17, 169, 246. Emphasis added. Antonio Sánchez Picón, ed.,...
Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta's Public Spaces
...built environment and the experiences of its inhabitants—mark the city's particularities. Increasing numbers of cars, trolleys, buses, and taxis enabled movement between downtown and suburbs; rural and urban areas; "colored"...
"Our Country"—Benjamin E. Wise's William Alexander Percy
...of equality . . . not only did not include African Americans; it also depended on them" (199). With blacks consigned to their paternalistic place and working-class whites thoroughly despised,...
The Border South
...it turns out, stood right on the border on the Ohio River: Jefferson County with over 10,000 enslaved persons. The Border, however, was also home to the largest numbers of...