Along the Ulcofauhatche: Of Sorrow Songs and "Dried Indian Creek"
...confidence. Sometimes it is faith in life, sometimes a faith in death, sometimes assurance of boundless justice in some fair world beyond. (W.E.B. DuBois, "Of the Sorrow Songs," The Souls...
Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project: Remembering Ancestors
...the journey. There is no small bench by the road, there is not even a tree scored and initialized that I can visit, or you can visit, in Charleston, or...
Geographies of Gardening: Ryan Gainey Discusses Figs
...successful landscaper in the 1980s. He is renowned for pairing English garden aesthetics with native plants of the southeastern United States. As is evident in the introduction of this short...
Voting Rights: Justice Alito's False, Partisan Facts
...In 2019 the Court held in a case concerning North Carolina's Congressional reapportionment that federal courts cannot become involved in partisan gerrymandering since it would involve the courts in allocating...
"Looking Back and Moving Forward": The Records of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference at Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library
...significant responsibility for daily management. Born in Prattville, Alabama, in 1942, Taylor was raised by his grandparents who moved to Montgomery in 1953. He became involved in the Civil Rights...
Segregation's Habits and Horrors: The Photographs of O. N. Pruitt
...including the Chicago Defender, Jet, and Afro World. In the 1960s, SNCC used the photograph on posters to promote voting rights in Mississippi. More recently, it was used in the...
Plantation Romances and Slave Narratives: Symbiotic Genres
...War. Its opening scene is also revolutionary in a gendered way: it shows us the remarkable widow, Mrs. Eveleigh, taking on a British naval officer in his cabin in order...
The Change
...spoke a word to you about it, I knew and I kept it to myself to this day and time and I never let on until I left on...
Consolation
...up Ripley and Traction Streets to Lower Wetumpka Road, past the tangle of railroad but not quite to Chisolm, if we could be waiting in a semi by the road...
Fall Creek
...on a bed of ferns, make a child, and all the while the woman stretching both arms behind her over the bank, hands swaying wrist-deep in current — perhaps some...