Public School Politics: A Review of The End of Consensus
...October 27, 2007. Photograph by Flickr user psychdelicfivecats. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Bottom, North Carolina school bus. Photograph by Flickr user Dale Moore. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND...
Ireland’s First Sacred Harp Convention: “To Meet To Part No More”
...gathered at University College Cork in Cork, Ireland, for the first Ireland Sacred Harp Singing Convention. A sacred, non-denominational, group singing tradition associated with the rural southeastern United States, Sacred...
Crisis of the New Majority: Low-Income Students in the South's Public Schools
...Florida, Texas, Georgia, and North Carolina, as well as in New Mexico, California, and a few other states outside the South, an increase in the number of Latino children appears...
The Other Side of Paradise: Glimpsing Slavery in the University's Utopian Landscapes
..."gateway oaks." (Some whites half jokingly referred to these as the "Pearly Gates.") At the base of the right oak was located a memorial to the only person of color...
Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron
...milieu that gave birth to journals like Black Arts South and Callaloo, as well as literary works by Frank Yerby, Ernest Gaines, Samm-Art Williams, and Alice Walker. As Davis explains...
Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance
...north. Over the first half of the nineteenth century, the numbers of enslaved in the District of Columbia declined. By 1850 (when Nannie was two years old) 3,185 of the 13,746...
Gone With the Wind
...flickering neon and fire, like Atlanta spilling into the night, and the Princess, here, in miniature, painted by the flickering of a model trolley's tiny headlamps on the tiny corner...
"Five Cents a Drink"
"Five Cents a Drink," Atlanta Constitution, May 19, 1886, p. 7 Published: 15 January 2008 © 2008 Sarah Toton and Southern Spaces...
Casino, Ponce de Leon Park
Advertisement for Ponce de Leon Park Casino and Ostrich Farm, Atlanta Constitution, 1906. circa 1908 circa 1910 The sign below the circle swing reads: "Ponce de Leon is a private...
Georgia Postcard
...Highway Church of God: "You come in here and pray." Roadkill, and blackbirds that pick at it, Chain gangs, and fat scarlet clover in rippling flocks — a North Georgia...