Mother Jones: Back in Alabama
...coal miners. Roughly two thousand people came out to the event, and many stopped to have their picture taken with "the grand old lady of the labor movement." Present were...
Marching for Gay Rights in Atlanta, 1971: An Excerpt from A Night at the Sweet Gum Head
...proudly and safely into the straight world outside the confines of bars and clubs once designated specifically as "gay spaces." Fifty years ago, none of those things was true. Queer...
An Unflinching Look: An Interview with Photographer Benjamin Dimmitt
...fished. It was a very long time ago. It was beautiful. I was accustomed to the coast of Florida having barrier islands or beaches, and there were none. Water, just...
Inside Poor Monkey's
...road, "Poor Monkey's Road." Tour groups stop here regularly, as do college students on field trips from around the United States. NOTE: In early spring 2006, Seaberry started calling the...
Piedmont Blues
...1932, and he collaborated with a number of high profile blues artists, including Ma Rainey, Gus Cannon, and Papa Charlie Jackson. Blake disappeared after his last Paramount session in 1932....
The "Achilles' Heel" of Jim Crow: A Review of Landscapes of Exclusion
...from nearly every one. While the National Park Service had an official nondiscrimination policy, typical of New Deal federal agencies it worked hard to avoid interfering with "local customs." As...
Welcome!
...our website, updated our audio and video, and significantly expanded our readership. As an online journal working at the intersection of a number of scholarly disciplines, we find ourselves in...
A Review of Matt Miller's Bounce: Rap Music and Local Identity in New Orleans
...States is here generally broken into a number of subgenres of rap and bounce, though the definitions and boundaries of these categories are fluid and often change according to whom...
Aunt Narcissa's Quilt [ca 1880]
...the household inventory of Mary's maternal grandparents is much less detailed, but nonetheless revealing. When Silas Benson died in 1875, the officials conducting the inventory chose to provide a single...
Changing Places, Changing Lives
...slaves were in fact other migrants who had established themselves over a number of years" (223). This admission leaves readers wondering what Pargas might have gleaned had he approached his...